Quotes #1

Today, Neil Gaiman. I don't feel so good at the moment, so I won't write down all that many quotes. I suppose there'll be more to come later.

PS: I've also included one of my favourite Sandman quotes. I know he didn't say those words, but he wrote them, so I figure that's OK.

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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

"If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will."

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."

"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul."

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over."

"I like stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last, and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend." (Destruction, Sandman Series)

Yellow bird

Another Akeboshi song. I found it yesterday, when I downloaded all of his CDs to see if I could find more treasures like Wind and White Reply and Yellow moon. This one's really pretty. It reminds me of my best friend. Thank you for being so awesome, Torstein.



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one rainy afternoon
a yellow bird nests in grandpa's tree
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

I'm sitting by the window pane
thinking of you and the lazy sky
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

do you remember the summer day?
trees were swaying with new lives
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

time flies like an arrow
I suddenly feel left alone
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

wrapped in warm spring sunshine
the yellow bird laid new life
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

time flies in a maybe sky
exciting chatter of baby birds
I have stories to tell you tonight
I have stories to tell you tonight

Wind

This song reminds me that I'm doing OK with my life. The video's just an AMV.



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cultivate your hunger before you idealize
motivate your anger to make them all realize
climging the mountain, never coming down
break into the contents, never falling down

my knee is still shaking, like I was twelve
sneaking out of the classroom by the backdoor
a man railed at me twice, though, but I didn't care
waiting is wasting for people like me

don't try to live so wise
don't cry, 'cause you're so right
don't dry with fakes or fears
'cause you will hate yourself in the end

you say, "dreams are dreams,
I ain't gonna play the fool anymore"
you say, "'cause I've still got my soul"
take your time, baby, your blood needs slowing down
breach your soul to reach yourself before you gloom
reflection of fear makes shadows of nothing
shadows of nothing

you still are blind if you see a winding road
'cause there's always a straight way to the point you see

don't try to live so wise
don't cry, 'cause you're so right
don't dry with fakes or fears
'cause you will hate yourself in the end
'cause you will hate yourself in the end
'cause you will hate yourself in the end

Eyes on me

This song is the ending theme for the game called Final Fantasy VIII. I adore the song and what it means, and I adore the video it belongs to. This ending video is a part of me. I used to watch it several times every day when I was a kid. And I mean EVERY day, for a very long time. I breathed this song. In the end I didn't have to watch the video to watch it. If that makes sense. I could act it all out in my head, all of the movements and all of the colours and everything. All of this is true of most of the things I listened to at that time, but this song and the ending video simply... belonged to me.

PS: The ending credits of the game aren't part of the song, but I knew them by heart too and loved them just as much, 'cause they're pretty awesome. I suppose a lot ot the video doesn't make sense to people who haven't played the game. But try to ignore that and just watch. Try to get drawn in. And most of all, listen.

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my last night here for you
same old songs, just once more?
my last night here with you
maybe yes, maybe no
I kind of liked it your way
how you shyly placed your eyes on me
oh, did you ever know
that I had mine on you?

darling, so there you are
with that look on your face
as if you're never hurt
as if you're never down
shall I be the one for you
who pinches you softly, but sure?
if frown is shown, then
I will know that you are no dreamer

so let me come to you
close, as I wanna be
close enough for me
to feel a heart beating fast
and stay there as I whisper
"how I love your peaceful eyes on me,"
did you ever know
that I had mine on you?

darling, so share with me
your love, if you have enough
your tears, if you're holding back
or pain, if that's what it is
how can I let you know?
I'm more than the dress and the voice
just reach me out, then
you will know that you are not dreaming

darling, so there you are
with that look on your face
as if you're never hurt
as if you're never down
shall I be the one for you
who pinches you softly, but sure?
if frown is shown, then
I will know that you are no dreamer

Bran-new lovesong

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"Watermelon. Or like a panda with a mean face. Or sandals with pressure points drawn on them. Or the smell of a blackboard eraser. Or like a sunday morning when you wake up and it's raining..."