hey everyone! i'm dana and i love quotes. i go to college in washington but live in california otherwise. i love my life and it's absolutely beautiful. i run on laughter, caffeine and get by with a little help from my friends. :)♥ and just ask to be sisters:)
it's BEAUTIFUL. and the reason for the lack of update, i've had no time D: but here's some quotes from the amazing book Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. it's seriously beautifully intense.
1. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
2.If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right and your life would amount to something.
3. Because in most twelve step recovery programs, the fourth step makes you take inventory of your life. Every lame, suck ass moment of your life, you have to get a notebook and write it down. A complete inventory of your crimes. That way every sin is right at your fingertips. Then you have to fix it all. This goes for alcoholics, drug abusers and overeaters, as well as sex addicts. This way you can go back and review the worst of your life anytime you want.
4. The problem with sex is the same with any addiction. You're always recovering. You're always backsliding. Acting out. Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
5. Somebody saves your life and they'll love you forever. It's that old chinese custom where if somebody saves your life, they're responsible for you forever. it's as if now you're their child. For the rest of their lives, these people will write me. Send me cards on the anniversary. Birthday cards. It's depressing how many people get this same idea. They call you on the phone. to find out if you're feeling okay. to see if you maybe need cheering up. Or cash.
6. Sobriety is okay enough. but someday I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
7. Every addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
8. Language, she sad, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
9. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair and depression, well addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a viable option.
10. What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who i need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
11.What Denny says is that maybe the second coming of Christ isn't something God will decide. Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. maybe God wanted us to invent our own saviour when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.
think my favourite quotes are the last two--they're so beautiful and true. It's insane. but hope everything's going well with everyone!! lemme know what you think, any suggestions too.
and figured it was time for an update :) here are some from Chuck Klosterman's book IV...it's pretty good
1. American culture is nothing more than a pastiche of fixations. We are obsessed with health. We are obsessed with pleasure. We are obsessed with speed. We are obsessed with efficiency. In simplest terms, we are obsessed by the desire to accelerate every element of our existence in a futile attempt to experience as much life as we can in the shortest possible time. We have all entered a race to devour the largest volume of gratification before it kills us.
2. Staying alive is complicated. it's the single most difficult thing every person does every single day. There is just so much in this wicked world that can kill us: cancer, avalanches, liver failure, street gangs wearing baseball uniforms, gravity, electric chairs, death squads, hammerhead sharks, werewolves, hemlock and a boundless cornucopia of other coldhearted entities who solely exist so that we may not.
3. Sometimes the difference between self actualization and self amusement is less than you think.
4.That was the most insane thing about Columbine: prior to April 20, 1999, it wasn't just that the goth kids weren't considered violent; prior to that tragedy, goth kids weren't even considered scary. They were just the kids who listened during english class.
5. As long as you have the right friends, your funeral will always matter a whole lot more.
6.Think about your life. Think about the greatest thing you have ever done and think about the worst thing you have ever done. Try to remember what motivated you do the former and try to remember what motivated you to do the latter. How similar are these two motives?
7.Only you can stop forest fires and only you can advance Advancement, If you care about rock 'n' roll, you will commit yourself to this project. The truth is out there and it's probably wearing sunglasses.
so shortish update. lemme know what you think!! and life's been so complicated lately D:
new update for everybody!! thanks so much for all the comments and subs! so bomb
1. You always were one to be easily misunderstood then in the dark you would cry making sure nobody heard If it’s hurting at all maybe you should be doing it different If you’re wanting to call you should know that I’m willing to listen ‘cause I think we should [Rachel McGoye 'Try Try']
2. And you know I see right through you When the world gets in your way What's the point in all this screamin' You're not listening anyway [Goo Goo Dolls 'Accoustic #3]
3. And maybe that’s un-cool But I’ll set a new rule To judge on the heart, don’t you judge in the mirror We may be a long way But that’s all that I can say You’ve gotta get a little closer [Five times August 'Beautiful Girls']
4. maybe someday, someway, somehow, sometime we'll get together and we'll break it down and I'll ask, "why you gotta be so shy, why you gotta be that way?" well maybe, baby, I like it that way [Tristan Prettyman and Jason Mraz 'Shy that way']
5. Even in the depths of winter, i finally realized that within me lie an invincible summer -Albert Camus
kinda short but still quality i think. lemme know what you think or if you wanna be sisters.
Jodi Picoult's Handle with Care. it's bloody brilliant.
1. I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about her all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into her eyes.
2.Dead isn't angels or ghosts. It's a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.
3. Real mothers may not speak the heresy, but they sometimes secretly wish they'd chosen something for breakfast other than this endless cereal. Real mothers worry that other mothers will find that magic ring whereas they'll be looking and looking for ages. Rest easy, real mothers. the very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
4 I think you're the only person who gets me. When i'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. please come to the dance. because you're my music.
5. I am the first person to tell you that i do not really understand love. How can you love your new haircut, love your job, and love your girlfriend all at once? Clearly the word doesn't mean the same thing in different situations which is why I have never been able to figure it out with logic.
lifeupdate: been on summer for a bit now and just counting down the days till i go down to LA to work at this camp for the arts called Idyllwild. i'm SO stoked for it, it's insane. it's basically making up for the boy drama in my life right now :(
so lemme know what you guys think!! and please comment and sub too :D
