Always Learn Poems By Heart

"‘Always learn poems by heart,’ she said. ‘They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.’"
— Janet Fitch


"Fate is like a strange unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like."
— Lemony Snicket


“The pattern still remains on the wall where darkness fell,
& it’s fitting that it should, for in darkness I must dwell.
Like the color of my skin, or the day that I grow old,
my life is made of patterns that can scarcely be controlled.”
-Simon & Garfunkel


"I wake up, it’s a bad dream, no one on my side.
I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting,
guess I’m not the fighting kind."


"Tell everybody waiting for Superman
that they should try to hold on the best they can.
He hasn’t dropped them, forgot them or anything,
it’s just too heavy for Superman to lift."