"I don't want to die, I just didn't care enough to run." ~Jenn (Dawson's Creek)
"It wasn't like I wanted to be the one holding your hand or anything, I just didn't want her holding it." ~Joey (Dawson's Creek)
"If you've never had a broken heart, then you are either very lucky or very lonely." ~Dawson's Creek
"You keep saying how this is wrong and maybe it is. But just to set the record straight... I'm firm believer that sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing." ~Pacey (Dawson's Creek)
"I'm the best sex you'll never have" ~Pacey (Dawson's Creek)
"I don't have low self esteem. It's a mistake. I have low esteem for everyone else." ~Daria
"I like having low self esteem. It makes me feel special." ~Jane (Daria)
"I'll be okay as long as no one tries to interact with me in any way." ~Daria
"It was easier to stay up all night than to wake up early" ~Trent (Daria)
"The old lady in 'Murder She Wrote' never thinks it's her fault, but every time she goes to dinner parties, someone dies. After a while, you've got to think, 'Hey!'" ~Caroline in the City
"I'm not sure how I did It, my memories begin with the crack of the bat, and the sight of the ball rising. Maybe that's not exactly what happened. But that's the way it should have happened, and that's the way I like to remember. And if dreams and memories sometimes get confused oh well... That is as it should be, because every kid deserves to be a hero... Every kid already is..." ~The Wonder Years
"All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We chose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope all the while, wondering if somewhere and somehow, there is someone searching for us." ~The Wonder Years
"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." ~Angela (My So-Called Life)
"It's like we're all in some kind of prison and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth. That when you look really closely, people are so strange, and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me." ~Angela (My So-Called Life)
"Such huge events take place on this earth everyday: earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why can't he just look at me?" ~My So-Called Life
"When I was little, I like, worshiped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. Because it's you one chance all year to be someone else." ~My So-Called Life
"This whole thing with the yearbook- it's like everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened. But if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be really depressing." ~Angela (My So-Called Life)
"You can't responsible for, like, the whole world." ~Rayanne (My So-Called Life)
"If life was like a giant VCR, our lives would be, like, videotaped. And we could fast foward past the really bad stuff and rewind the really good stuff. Except with my luck, I'd probably lose the remote and get stuck at, like, cheerleaders day in the cafeteria." ~Rayanne (My So-Called Life)
Rachel: "I don't think my boss likes me very much."
Monica: "I don't think mine likes me very much either."
Chandler: "Me neither."
Ross: "Maybe it's a universal thing."
Joey: "Or maybe it's because you're here (Central Perk) at 11:30 on a Wednesday afternoon!"
~Friends
"The sexual tension was so thick you could cut it." ~Rachel's boss (Friends)
"Oh I'm sorry, did my back hurt your knife?" ~Rachel (Friends)
"For all we know, our universe could exist soley in a styrofoam cooler in some guy's garage." ~David Letterman
"To whom it may concern,
I'm not made of steele.
When I get blind-sided,
My pain is quite real.
~Darlene's poem (Roseanne)
"Even if I get rid of all my problems I'm just going to go out and get new ones." ~Ally McBeal
"The only world that won't disappoint you is the one you make up." ~Ally McBeal
"I have a great imaginary world, but sometimes I need the real kiss." ~Ally McBeal
"To me, beautiful is-- you can put me, any woman, in a bathing suit, in a dress, in a potato sack, and I can still feel comfortable with who I am. That's beautiful." ~Real World, Hawaii
"Oh, you want to be a writer, eh? What are ya gonna do, roll that paper into A GIANT DOOBIE?!?" ~Matt Foley (Chris Farley, SNL)
Well, you'll have plenty of time to write when you're . . . livin' in a van down by the river!" ~Matt Foley (Chris Farley, SNL)
"Now son, you don't drink beer. That's for daddies and kids with fake i.d.'s." ~Homer (The Simpsons)
"So does it blow and suck at the same time?"-Oprah Winfrey about tornadoes
"I did this for myself today." ~Oprah
"It is only natural that we and our children find many things hard to talk about. But anything human is mentionable and anything mentionable can be manageable. The mentioning can be difficult, and the managing too, but both can be done if we're surrounded by love and trust" ~Fred Rogers, Mister Roger's Neighborhood
Movies/ Plays...
"We were raised on television to believe that we'd all be millionares, movie gods, rock stars... but we won't. And we're starting to figure that out." ~Fight Club
"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." ~Fight Club
"You and I are such similar creatures. We both screw people for money." ~Edward (Pretty Woman)
"Well, I'm not trying to land him. I'm just using him for sex." ~Vivian (Pretty Woman)
"People put you down enough you start to believe it. The bad stuff is easier to believe... you ever notice that?" ~Vivian (Pretty Woman)
"Would someone please tell me what the fuck is going on?!" ~Stuckey (Pretty Woman)
"Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here. This is Hollywood, Land of Dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't. But keep on dreamin'! This is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'!" ~Guy on the street (Pretty Woman)
"Do you ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast? Well, that's what love is like... it makes your heart race and turns the world upside down. But if you're not careful, and you don't keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. And you can't see what's happening to the other people around you. You can't see that you're about to fall." ~Practical Magic
"Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can." ~Practical Magic
o, ye of little faith. wanna cookie? - Brodie (Clerks)
I came to this on my own terms. I didn't just heed what I was taught, you know? Men and women should be together, it's the natural way -- that kind of thing. I'm not with you because of what family, society, life tried to instill in me from day one. The way the world is -- how seldom you meet that one person who gets you -- it's so rare. My parents didn't really have it. There was no example set for me in the world of male/female relationships. And to cut oneself off from finding that person -- to immediately half your options by eliminating the possibility of finding that one person within your own gender...that just seemed stupid. So I didn't. But then you come along. You -- the one least likely; I mean you were a guy. And while I was falling for you, I put a ceiling on that, because you were a guy. Until I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place -- to not limit the likelihood of finding the one person who'd complement me so completely. And so here we are. I was thorough when I looked for you, and I feel justified lying in your arms -- because I got here on my own terms, and have no question that there was someplace I didn't look. And that makes all the difference. ~Alyssa Jones (Chasing Amy)
"Me, I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, of what I did, of who I am, but most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling again the way I feel when I'm with you." ~Baby (Dirty Dancing)
"If you were happy everyday of your life, you wouldn't be human. You'd be a game show host." ~Winona Ryder (Heathers)
"We're here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die." ~Nicholas Cage to Cher (Moonstruck)
"I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you." ~Tom Cruise (Top Gun)
"Take me to bed or lose me forever!" ~can't remember her name to Goose (Top Gun)
"Beginnings are scarey. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning just give hope a chance to float up. And it will." ~Hope Floats
"i'm a recovering sex addict... I just fell off the wagon." ~Ann Hech (Wild Side)
"Sieze the day. Make your lives extraordinary." ~Dead Poet's Society
"But only in their dreams can men truely be free. Twas always thus, and always thus shall be." ~Dead Poets Society
"There is a time for daring and a time for caution. A wise man knows which is called for." ~Dead Poets Society
"With enough courage you don't need a reputation." ~Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind)
Scarlett: "Sir, you are no gentleman."
Rhett: "And you miss, are no lady. Don't think I hold that against you. Ladies never held any charm for me."
~Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind)
"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable-- like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love-- like there has never been in a play." ~Viola, Shakespeare in Love
"Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent." ~Troy, answering the phone (Reality Bites)
Lelaina: I just don't understand why things just can't go back to normal at the end of the half-hour like, on the brady bunch or something.
Troy: Well, cause Mr. Brady died of AIDS. Just doesn't work out like that.
Lelaina: I was really gonna be something by the age of 23.
Troy: Honey, all you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself.
Lelaina: I don't know who that is anymore.
Troy: I do, and, and we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again but, but I love her.
~Reality Bites
"I tried to kill myself with a Lady Bic. A pink plastic razor with dasies on it and a moisturizing strip." ~Deborah (Empire Records)
Warren: "Why don't you take these C.D.'s and shove them up your ass?" Lucas: "Because that would hurt a lot, Warren." ~Empire Records
"If you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt."-Kris Kringle (Miracle on 34th Street)
Wooderson: "Say man, you got a joint?" Mitch: "No, not on me, man." Wooderson: "It'd be a lot cooler if you did." ~Dazed and Confused
"Cheer up Riz, hickeys from Kineckys are like a Hallmark card. They care enough to send their very best." ~Kinecky (Grease)
"How do you find your way back out in the dark?" ~Marilyn Monroe's last words on screen
"Destiny is something that we've invented because we can't stand that fact that everything we do is coincidental." ~Sleepless in Seattle
"It's not that we don't want to believe, but too much has happened and we can't." ~Now and Then
"Pain is your friend, your ally. It tells you when you are seriously injured. It also tells you to get the job done and get the hell home. The best part of pain, is it lets you know you're not dead yet." ~Rutger Hauer (G.I. Jane)
"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself" ~Rutger Hauer (G.I. Jane)
Books...
"I don't do perky." ~Garfield
"Deep in the earth my love is lying and I must weep alone." ~Edgar Allen Poe
"Sittin' on your ass can be a disease worse than what you got." ~Roberta, She's Come Undone
"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love." ~Mr. Pucci, She's Come Undone
"Fate doesn't give warrenties like Sears Roebuck. That will be thirty-five for today." ~Nadine, the psychic She's Come Undone
"I knew somehow she was going to be important in my life, if not my friend. I didn't know if I would marry her, write about her, or kill her." ~Chris Lombardi, The Suicide Project
"Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade...you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything--from A to F." ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door, and you say, 'Go away. I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling." ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Step with great care and great tact; Remember that life's a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed." ~Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You Will Go
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." ~Matt Groening, Love is Hell
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." ~Matt Groening, Love is Hell
"We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of-- unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough." ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"...Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job-- then they find those things are empty too, and they keep running." ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"Death ends a life, not a relationship." ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"The big things-- how we think, what we value-- those you must choose for yourself. You can't let anyone-- or any society-- determine those for you." ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right? But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well." ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right along their bedsides." ~Mitch Album, Tuesday's With Morrie
"The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-- until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore.
'My God, this is terrible,' the wave says. 'Look at what's going to happen to me.'
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave looking grim and asks why he looks so sad.
The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?'
The first wave says, 'No, you don't undersatnd. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'" ~Morrie, Tuesday's With Morrie
"Everyone has a moment in his history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person 'the world today' or 'life' or 'reality' he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever." ~John Knowles, A Separate Peace
"Death, it seems, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic." ~John Irving, The World According to Garp
"A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you." ~John Irving, The World According to Garp
"Labels are always limiting because they conjure up different feelings to different individuals based on their own experiences. If we identify ourselves with standard definitions, we shortchange ourselves, painting an incomplete picture of who we really are." ~Naomi Tucker, Bi Any Other Name
"This bridge will only take you half way there/ To those mysterious lands you long to see.../ The last few steps you'll have to take alone." ~Shel Silverstein
"Pain is always about something; So don't ignore it.
The pain of rejection. Of death. Of life. Of loss.
Of failing. Of remembering.
The list is endless
and sometimes the pain is so tangible that you'll ache.
You can feel it in your head, your hands, your heart.
But pain does end.
It's more than a matter of just changing the way you eat or dress.
It's about changing the way you think and live,
and taking comfort from the little things,
especially the little steps that you are making."
~Mary Jane, by Sanica Robinson
"'Then where are you going in life?' he demanded. A person can get tired of everybody bugging her about where she's going. 'To be Dad. I'm going to be.'" ~Jan Carr, Harem Wish
"Such as we are made of, such we be." ~Shakespeare
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man."
~Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience does make cowards of us all." ~Shakespeare, Hamlet
"I have a man's mind, but a woman's might." ~Portia, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
"Have more than thou showest/ Speak less than thou knowest." ~Shakespeare, King Lear
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts."
~Shakespeare, As You Like It
"[Life] is a tale told by an idoit
Full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York."
~Shakespeare, King Richard III
"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his." ~Shakespeare, Timothy of Athens
"Golden lads and girls all must/ as chimney-sweepers, come to dust." ~Shakespeare, Cymbeline
"But what I discover, Lover after Lover/ There's nothing wrong with me/ That's just a Lie by society/ So I start looking at the world we have/ And while it's not completely bad/ There's a lot of room for improvement/ People of color and the gay movement" ~Sonia Rutstein, "Who's So Scared"
"You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self." ~Maya Angelou
"For thy waste and thy desolate places
And thy land that hath been destroyed
Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants,
And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
The children of thy bereavement
Shall yet say in thine ears:
'The place is too strait for me;
Give place to me that I may dwell."
~Isaiah 49:19-20
