People in hell want ice water, but they're not gonna get it. - Judge Joe Brown.

"If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?"

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. (f)

~Author Unknown

Initial kisses leave
monograms of lust on mouths,
fingers intertwined beneath
covers and street lights,

Laughter tangled in sheets
skimming over crescent mooned skin,
desire and nails dug in for
the long haul,

Paused at the precipice
of no return,
pointedly delaying the
imagined inevitable,

Pushing in and through
long, tight months of aching,
telephonic breath no longer
at the mercy of dropped signals,

Palm struck flesh
chilled by cool hands mapping you,
lips knowing no borders,
longing the only currency.

~Fatale

*sigh* I love quotes...
 

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen. - Sarah Ban Breathnach.

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. - Marianne Williamson.

***that's very good, fatale. you show a lot of talent, as usual **** :)

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”― Sarah Dessen


“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”― A.A. Milne

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” ― John Green

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”― Sara Dessen


I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” ― John Green




“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” ― Nicholas Sparks

Rilke....1st translation
 

EVENING

Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.
And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.
To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so that it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.
Rainer Maria Rilke


Katniss~~ (I am going to post this same poem with a different translator's take on Rilke. I find it interesting how things are interpreted although the original words were constant)

Rlke-Evening (2nd/Mitchell) translation
 

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.



Katniss~~ (I like this translation best)

Louis MacNeice--excerpt from "Autumn Journal"
 

September has come and I wake And I think with joy how whatever, now or in future, the system
Nothing whatever can take The people away, there will always be people For friends or for lovers though perhaps The conditions of love will be changed and its vices diminished
And affection not lapse To narrow possessiveness, jealousy founded on vanity. September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fire-place; So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy; Who has left a scent on my life and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow, Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.



Katniss~~

In the wake of strong winds, fallen trees and downed power lines, I'm reminded of what's most important to me. Love of God, Self and the people in my life.(f)

~Me

“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things:
either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King


“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss


“An unconventional idea or technique that seems outrageous today could lay the foundation for traditions of tomorrow.”
― Jeraldine Saunders

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect she might be, she was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to her, so would she always be mine.” ― Stephenie Meyer


“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”― Nicholas Sparks

“Happiness is a state of activity.” ― Aristotle

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ― Buddha

“Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron

"Pies, like the internet, need content. Otherwise it's just....a crust?"- Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen, Season 2 episode 1: Meat Pies

"Experimenting with food is like experimenting with your sexuality. How do you know you're not a big homo?"-Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen, Chocolate Shuffle

"The Internet is about watching people do things you wish you were doing."-Grace Helbig

"If your glasses are more than a quarter-inch thick, I assume you know everything about music."- Grace Helbig

"Stop, drop, and use your words."- Grace Helbig

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light" -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.


~Tagore

I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

something sweet I read today
 

she comes, and with her, her essence
she brightens the place, as if it's made alive by her presence
scents from her linger in each room
the sweet smells which surround her vanish too soon
when she goes
leaving only empty air to await her return

"I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own."

~Bhagwan Rajneesh


(f)

I love this!!!!!!!

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”― Sarah Dessen


“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks


“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”― Melissa de la Cruz

Japanese poem
 

Sometimes while wandering,
when I cannot find which road
leads back the way I came,
the road goes anywhere,
and anywhere at all is home.

~~Muso Soseki


Katniss~~

"The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out from the heart"

~Charles Bukowski.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

― Mary Oliver

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"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."

― L.M. Montgomery

This dialogue Reminds me of something I'd do with a very long-time BFF{almost 18 yrs}
 

Porthos:[French Accent] Stop praying and revel with me, Aramis! I need my spirits lifted. I'm old, I'm weak, my strength is gone.

Aramis: [U.K Accent] Porthos! I'm praying.

Porthos: I just said you're praying. Are you deaf, too? I know you're blind, because if you'd seen the tits that just walked out of here, you'd have tears in your eyes. [Porthos sniffs]

Aramis: Sometimes there are more important things in life than a good pair of tits.

Porthos: Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral.

Aramis: Forgiveness...

Porthos: Forgiveness...?

[Porthos farts]

Porthos: There... i am i forgiven? Come on [smacks Aramis on the shoulder] Am i forgiven?

[Aramis pauses, collects himself and slaps the shit out of Porthos]

Porthos: I have come to zee conclusion your Forgiveness is not as sweet....nor sublime!! [rubs cheek]

[Childish fight erupts between the two, Athos enters while Aramis pins Porthos down]

Athos:[American Accent...Possibly Wisconsin] Am I interrupting something?...

[Aramis & Porthos rush to Greet and explain while pushing each other]

From pacifist to terrorist,
each person condemns violence and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

~Gloria Steinem

" Happiness isn't something you wait around for, or something that is going to happen someday. It is happening all the time , you just have to choose it. Make it happen . It is all up to you , the when and how much, depends on your choices." -Unknown

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” -― Steve Maraboli

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.”― Julio Cortázar

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles



“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It


“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it, you will meet someone and be happy. I used to say it too. But I know it's not true. Every time I fall in love it is because something in that person reminds me of him. And sadly none really measure up”
― Betty Smith



“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.” ― J.R. Ward


“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.” ― Sarah Addison Allen