Kander and Ebb
- Cabaret
I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie with whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea. She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower. As a matter of fact she rented by the hour. The day she died the neighbors came to snicker. "Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor." But when I saw her laid out like a queen she was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen.
Anonymous
- The Void
Beware to gaze long into the void, for the void will gaze back into you. The void will cry out a meow for this void wants food. Feed your void and give it pets.
Fred Brandt
- Fascinating San Francisco
Up the coast some Russians had established a settlement, much to the disquiet of the authorities, who looked upon this as an encroachment of barbarians menacing Spanish power. Rezanov, plenipotentiary of the Czar, was a man of charming personality, however, and was able to lull the suspicions of the indolent Spanish officials and lay his plans for a coup that never took place.
The Animals
- White Houses
White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky. Tumbled-down black shacks over the tracks, children so hungry they could cry. The chrome, the steel, the metal dream, leaving the teepee to rot. The escapist young mind, left behind, saving dimes for community pot.
Kander and Ebb
- "Maybe This Time" - Cabaret
Maybe this time I'll be lucky. Maybe this time he'll stay. Maybe this time, for the first time, love won't hurry away. He will hold me fast. I'll be home at last. Not a loser like the last time and the time before. Everybody loves a winner, so nobody loved me. Lady Peaceful, Lady Happy- that's what I long to be. All the odds are in my favor. Something's bound to begin. It's gonna happen, happen sometime. Maybe this time I'll win.
Tyler, The Creator
- SORRY NOT SORRY
I'm sorry, I'm sorry I don't see you more. I'm sorry that the four minutes where you see your son could feel like a chore. Sis', I'm sorry I'm your kin. Sorry we ain't close as we should've been. Sorry to my old friends, the stories we could have wrote if our egos didn't take the pen.
The Marias
- No One Noticed
Come on, don't leave me it can't be that easy, babe. If you believe me I guess I'll get on a plane, fly to your city excited to see your face Hold me, console me and then I'll leave without a trace.
Konrad
- Love is in the air
Love can be found here, there, anywhere. Love is the best drug you can get, until they break your little heart. Love where to start, it's a great thing to have in life, but it can be the worse. Love, love, love.
Bram Stoker
- Dracula
There was hope in his words, and comfort; and they made for resignation. Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took one of the old man's hands and bent over and kissed it. Then without a word we all knelt down together, and, all holding hands, swore to be true to each other. We men pledged ourselves to raise the veil of sorrow from the head of her whom, each in his own way, we loved; and we prayed for help and guidance in the terrible task which lay before us.
Nathaniel Ford
- Maturity
Maturity is a grand thing to have early on in life, but it is not easily gained. While the prosperous and content family may bear a happy, healthy, and overall well-functioning member of society, the less perfect household raises a hardened, disciplined individual earlier on. I know many who relate to the latter, having involuntarily sacrificed childhood years for the appreciation of work and responsibility that is maturity.
Radiohead
- Anyone Can Pay Guitar - Chorus
And if the world does turn and if London burns I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band when I get to heaven. Anyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing anymore.
Dorothy Tse
- Owlish
He went to embrace the Maria in the wedding dress, feeling like an awkward child. He stared desperately into her eyes, as though expecting them to be transparent, allowing him to see into that Maria's body to the real Maria hiding inside it. But all he could see was a reflection of the world, which, in a way that he couldn't understand, seemed to have sealed shut a vitally important door (a door that cannot be opened will always seem the most vitally important of doors).
K. I. Peirce
- Hormones
I attacked my pesky hormones as I'd attacked all my other problems - head on and with little thought to societal expectations or conventional Christian values.
openlibrary dot org
In Adobe Digital Editions, look for your "library." That's the book spines icon in the top left corner of the application (1). Once you're in your library, click on the menu for the book you'd like to return which is behind the tiny triangle that appears by the book cover (2) and select "Return Borrowed Item" from the menu (3). This image will show you where to look.
The Bored College Student.
- The Illusion Of Growing Up.
I remember when I was a little girl. The days where being your personal best was just making sure you had a smile. Nobody yelling at you to do certain tasks but to brave the world with your art supplies, your only monsters were the ones under your bed. Those monsters now fight us mentally and physically. We were told the world was your oyster, but the truth being that we are all just as claustrophobic as a clam. We were never destined to be the pearl- we were destined to protect the pearls.
Transformers Cybertron ep. Guardian
- Vector Prime's Parting Speech
I alone have stood outside the reach of time, watching as the millennium marched past. I have seen oceans rise, continents shift and mountains crumble. I have seen brother rise against brother, and the decimation it leaves behind. And always the great cycle continues, as new life rises from the ashes. Now I too have become part of the cycle, starting a new life with purpose and meaning, and though that life might end, I know that in the hearts of these friends I have made, I shall live forever.
Ḥakham Dr. José Faur
- Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Hazzan: The Man and His Works
Judaism is not a static ideal to be maintained by erecting walls that would prevent any meaningful interaction with the general cultural environment. There is a perennial need of interpretation and adaptation of the eternal values of Israel in order to meet the specific conditions of every historical situation... It is the task of the Jewish sage, in particular, to interpret the key cultural symbols of his own times in light of this mental language, on the one hand, and the constitutive values.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
- On the Banks of Plum Creek
Pa had to walk three hundred miles before he found a job. Now he was working in the wheat-fields and getting a dollar a day. He sent Ma five dollars and kept three for new boots. Crops were good where he was, and if Ma and the girls were making out all right, he would stay there as long as the work lasted. They missed him and wanted him to come home. But he was safe and already had new boots. They were very happy that day.
Miracle Musical
- Stranded Lullaby
I'd like to know why you are all alone while I'm lost at sea. Maybe we'll be there when you want. You're unsure if I am a loose end or strand that waits for you to mend or understand.
K. I. Peirce
- Staring Competition
I might be tied to an operating table in a spaceship presumably hurtling through outer space faster than he speed of light. I might be completely at their mercy. But there's no way I'm complying with my captors' commands, even if it means I'm stuck in the universe's most petty staring competition with an alien of a species that, for all I know never blinks.
