Bojack Horseman
- Free Churro
Usually when people ask how I'm doing, the real answer is I'm doing shitty, but I can't say I'm doing shitty because I don't even have a good reason to be doing shitty. So if I say, "I'm doing shitty," then they say, "Why? What's wrong?" And I have to be like, "I don't know, all of it?" So instead, when people ask how I'm doing, I usually say, "I am doing so great."
Ratatouille
- Defense of the New
The bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.
Terry Pratchett
I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need fantasies to make life bearable? No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. So we can believe the big ones? Yes. Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
Jacob Riis
- The Stonecutter's Credo
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Anonymous
- Capital L Love
I believe in Love, capital L Love. I believe in the cheesy, over the top, insane love. I believe in happy ever after, in finding the person who feels like it was all meant to be. I believe in the butterflies and rainbows and sunsets and kisses. Not because I believe in destiny or fate or any of that stuff, but because if I don't believe in that stupid god-damned crazy version of love, then what's the point? That love is the only love worth all this pain and loneliness and madness and longing.
Twisted
She is at once a comfort and a mystery to the callow man she meets that faithful day. She's beautiful and wise and something in her eyes beckons him to know her and inspires him to say. I want to know your story. I want to know your past. I want to know your future too. Fill my days and nights with the tale of you.
Ted Mosby
Hi, I'm Ted Mosby and exactly 45 days from now you and I are gonna meet and we're gonna fall in love and we're gonna get married. We're gonna have two kids and we're gonna love them and each other so much. All that is 45 days away but I'm here now because I want those extra 45 days with you. I want each one of them because I love you. I'm always gonna love you. Till the end of my days and beyond.
William Blake
Auguries of Innocence: "To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."
Terry Pratchett
- Death on Justice and Mercy
Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
Stephen Sondheim
- Loving you
Loving you is not a choice, it's who I am. Loving you is not a choice and not much reason to rejoice. But it gives me purpose, gives me voice to say to the world: "This is why I live. You are why I live."
Anonymous
- Love
I love you, and you are the only person I have ever allowed myself to love. I love you because you are the only person who has ever seen me in my lowest, most disgusting form, and said, "That's someone worth loving."
Stephen Sondheim
- Passion
No one has ever loved me as deeply as you. No one has ever shown me what love could be like until now. Not pretty or safe or easy, but more than I ever knew. Love within reason, that isn't love. And I've learned that from you.
Next to Normal
- You Don't Know
You know, really? What exactly do you know? Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head? Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead? It's like living on a cliffside not knowing when you'll dive. Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive? When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black. When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back. You don't know. I know you don't know.
