Quotes That Speak to Me

I like words. I think there's a physical beauty in them. They can create a picture, a sound, a taste, a feeling, an entire world. Words are the atoms of life.

And there is something incredibly... romantic about a well constructed phrase.

So here are some of the phrases, sentences, anything really, that I think are beautiful enough to try and share with the world. Enjoy.

Television
"Peter, I remember William Bell. I remember crossing over to bring you back. I remember Jacksonville, and seeing you shimmer the first time we kissed. I remember you walking to the Machine and getting inside and being scared you were going to die. I remember it. I remember us. I remember everything."
-Olivia
Fringe: Episode 4.13 A Better Human Being

On Dying:
(Screams)
"That's right, honey. Let it all out, 'cause there's no room for that where we're going."
"Oh, this fucking sucks."
-Grams
True Blood: Episode 4.12 And When I Die

Doctor "That's you, from the future. Serving time for a murder you probably can't remember. My murder.
River "Why would you do that? Make me watch?
"So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven."
"Please, my love. Please, please. Just run."
"Can't."
"Time can be rewritten."
"Don't you dare."
Doctor Who: Episode 6.13 The Wedding of River Song

Because, Summer. I like you - this much.
- Seth Cohen
The OC: Episode 1.10

And we hurt each other. It is horrible how we hurt each other.
- Amy
Everwood: Episode 2.22

One of these days, you're going to have to stop hating what you are.
- Joseph
Moonlight

Because I love her. And I can't make her happy.
- Chuck Bass
Gossip Girl: Episode 2.24

"Do you like her? More than me?"
"Jude, you can't ask me that."
"I'm asking."
- Jude and Tommy
Instant Star

When a woman gives birth to a crack baby, you do not buy her a puppy.
- Emily Gilmore
Gilmore Girls

Movies
For all tine, they'd say it was our love, brought down a kingdom.
Tristan - Tristan + Isolde

A love so real that even after you're dead it still hurts.
Must Love Dogs

Books
I stare at Tobey. He looks back at me with such an intensity I expect the glass to shatter.
I press my hand against his window. He presses his hand on the other side of mine.
For a while, we stay like that. With our hands pressed together, separated by glass.
When It Happens - Susane Colassanti

"Names are forged in Heaven." -Allegra

"Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then... By maybe weakness is a strength of a kind." -Kingsley

The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa de la Cruz

"Tell me one thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?" Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. "Of course this is happening inside your head, Harry. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
The green eyes found the black.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling

But it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night.
My heart aches frantically for a second as I think of all the time I wasted, seconds and hours spun out of my fingertips forever like snow into the dark.
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver

There was a lot of empty time in which to miss her.
Where She Went - Gayle Foreman

"If you tell me you are not troubled, I will call you a liar. So what will you do?"
"I will be troubled, and keep my vows."

"And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons. For dragons fly."

A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe of the terrible power of the things they carried.
The Things They Carried - Time O'Brien

Plays & Poems
And the princess, she just stops. I just stop. And it's like I've been here all my life. And I begin to see some piece of something, something big as the whole night sky, heavy and full. And inside the dark, inside the inside, I see all these lights, thousands and thousands of lights. And I'm thinking to myself, how beautiful they are. And I'm so close I can almost touch them, so close, I can't even tell where I stop, and where they begin.
Polaroid Stories - Naomi Iuzuki

Trip no further, pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will - William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth be a liar. But never doubt I love.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die. Like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.
It is enough I may but call her, "Mine."
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
The Old Astronomer to His Pupil - Sarah Williams

We believe in the life of the world to come. Amen.
Church Prayer

Songs
So who's going to watch you die?
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie

Don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. Remember to let her into your heart.
Hey Jude - The Beatles

You keep the air in my lungs, floating along as a melody comes.
How I Go - Yellowcard

I can't live, I can't breathe. Unless you do this with me...
The Adventure - Angels and Airwaves

You put your arms around me, and I believe that it's easier for you to let me go. You put your arms around me and I'm home.
Arms - Christina Perri

Oh, my sweet Amelia. Where you go, you go too far. I can't follow where you go cause it's too dark.
Sweet Amelia - Ben Montague

People
Everything is always okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Unknown

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

- Albert Einstein

We ourselves will be remembered as a collective for what we did, and failed to do. Together.
- John Green

For small creatures, such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love.
- Carl Sagan

Viva Cristo Real
- Mexican Missionary

EWW! Pedophilia!
- KMacK

I look in your eyes and all I can think and all I can feel is, 'Of Course.'

I Will Rise Up

I love True Blood. I'm the youngest in my family (and I'm 20 now) so, somehow, and I think it's because I've trained my family to have decent taste in television, our "family shows" are HBO shows. (Our new favorite is Game of Thrones) We have watched almost every episode (excluding some of season 2), and almost every one we watched together. It's weird, I know, but it's my family and I love them for it.

One of my favorite scenes is in episode 2x09, I Will Rise Up. It's the last scene of the episode, and sorry, spoiler alert, it's the scene where Godric dies (and Sookie stays with him). Godric is about two thousand years old. And even for a vampire, (True Blood vampires specifically) that's old. I mean, OLD. I think we only meet one other vampire that's older than him, and there's a lot of vampires. One thing he says, as he's dying, (he chooses to wait for the sun to rise and burn, depressing, but beautiful) he asks Sookie, "If there is a god, how will he punish me?" And in her infinite, although sometimes painfully frustrating, wisdom, she says, "God doesn't punish. He forgives." (There are more things I love about this scene, but I'll get to them in time.)
I don't know about you, but that's the God I believe in. I don't care what I call him, or what any one else calls him, or how strongly you believe, or don't. To be honest, I don't care if any one believes in any kind of God or not. I think, and I know from my own experiences, that we all find God in our own time, and no amount of Bible thumping, intolerant, preachy Christians can make that happen any faster than it should. (If you can't tell from that, I don't deal well with intolerance...) Back to the point: "God doesn't punish. He forgives." I thought that was the best way to talk about God, the best way to believe in God. And because I love this scene so much (maybe too much...) I watch it on YouTube... a lot. And one time, I scrolled down to look through the comments. Someone had posted saying that wasn't how God was, and that Sookie is being the wrong kind of Christian saying that. I got rather frustrated with this: Why go around watching a scene on YouTube that you don't agree with, then start picking fights with people in comments on your views on God and religion? I still don't know the answer to this, but it made me wonder about their faith. Was it their own, or was it someone else's views they were spouting? I thought about this for a while, but my main thought was: Why would you want to believe in a God that wouldn't always love you, wouldn't always forgive you, support you? I don't know the answer to that either, but just having the thought made me think about my own faith. I was raised Roman Catholic, both my parents are, and their parents, and pretty much every family member I've ever met... But I don't know if a single one of them had ever shared this thought with me. This faith I had, it was all my own. (How I got there though, that's a different story.)

The last beautiful aspect of this scene? Another quote. Sookie asks if Godric is afraid. He tells her he wants to burn. She tells him she's afraid for him, then starts to cry (she does a lot of that, rather emotional girl). Godric replies: "A human with me at the end? And human tears?" A pause. "Two thousand years, and I can still be surprised?" He smiles to himself. "In this I see God." Then Sookie cries some more, and Godric burns in the light of the rising sun. The idea that you can see God in surprises, in new experiences, in unexpected ways? It's the simplest one, I mean really, it's what they teach you in Bible School. But it's the most beautiful.

If you don't like God, don't hate on those who do.
If you do like God, don't hate on those who don't. And don't preach. Ever. You found your God, let everyone find their own, in their own time.

Until next time,
Alissa