August 2011
73 posts
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the...”
– Neil Gaiman
My Moon, My Man
My moon, my man's a changeable land
Such a loveable land to me
My care, my co-lead barber I know
There's nowhere to go but on
Feist
You said it would be alright, but I just don’t know.
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“It must be hard for parents, I guess, when they see that things aren’t...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
High Fidelity
Five women who don’t live on my street, as far as I know, but would be very welcome if they ever decided to move into the area: the Holly Hunter of Broadcast News; the Meg Ryan of Sleepless in Seattle; a woman doctor I saw on the telly once, who had lots of long frizzy hair and carved up a Tory MP in a debate about embryos, although I don’t know her name and I’ve never been able...
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“A Byronic character burnt by experience, arrogant but also eloquent and...”
– Michael Fassbender on Mr Rochester
“She wrote the verse to all his dreams.”
– Oliver Tank
Gabriel
Wide awake and I can hear my heart beat,
Hope it cradles me and rocks my bones to sleep.
Protector in the light, stranger in the dark
And you don't say anything more,
My suffocating secrets I must keep.
Gabriel you've gone too far
Gabriel you've gone too far
And you should hang your head in shame,
For these wounds I cannot stay
You've gone to far
You broke my heart,
You've gone too far.
- Joe Goddard
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“Sometimes I think it would be nice to have someone, with whom to share this...”
– Paris, Je T’Aime
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“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
– C.S. Lewis
Pearl's Dream
And when the battle was done
I was promised my sun
But with a thousand knights gone
To any kingdom I run
There's a place I must go
There's a place I must go
For my heart is a child
That stumbles lonely for the arms of the wild.
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
