“Two years ago it was the year of the cow in the chinese calendar and we had mad cow disease become rampant. We then had avian flu during the following year, the year of the chicken. This year was the year of the pig…and we had swine flu.

2012 is the year of the dragon. Oh god. It all makes sense.”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'” ~Sylvia Plath

“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.” ~Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” ~Kurt Vonnegut

“There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.” ~Herbert B. Prochnow

“You say that the way I feel, it’s all just chemicals in my brain.
It’s all just strange air in my atmosphere.
It’s all just new colours in my rivers.
But you are my industry.
You are my factory.
You are my smoke stacks.
You are my production line.
You are my cheap sneakers.
You are my fast food.
And I’m a planet you once called home.
That’s nearly out of air.” ~I Wrote This For You

“We lose the people we love because we are meant to love someone else. We lose them because we are destined to find somebody else. It is a simple fact that is sometimes hard to accept because we are too stubborn to let go of something that doesn’t belong to us anymore.”

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?” ~Sydney J. Harris

“And instead of saying all of your goodbyes – let them know you realize that life goes fast. It’s hard to make the good things last. You realize the sun doesn’t go down. It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.” ~The Flaming Lips

“I needed to know that I meant something, anything to you. But what I got was nothing, absolutely nothing. And it’s funny the things you realize when someone walks away. At first you feel as though it’s your fault. Feeling like nothing, so close to falling apart. And then, in time, you come to the realization that you did nothing wrong. That it’s her loss. You live and you learn, that’s how it is.”