laura’s Loved Quotes

The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
The darkness falls at Thy behest.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.

Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, f*ck man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f*ckin' Bruges. And I really really hoped I wouldn't die. I really really hoped I wouldn't die.

Trust me, if you want to spot a mediocre novelist, all you have to do is look for the scene in which the writer uses a meal as a metaphor for sensuality. It's a cheap shot. Dinner isn't a metaphor for anything. It's dinner.

Quotables - somewhere quotes like to call home.

The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

A Love Supreme.

Out here we is stoned – immaculate.

As I am unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.

Well now everything dies baby that’s a fact.
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

Back in the garage with my bullshit detector.

‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me.

In the middle of a cloud I call your name.

I believe the transmission of stories has something to do with this. Watching a building collapse on television is not a story. It engages the viewer in a spectacle, not an act of moral imagination.