January 15, 2009

brave new girl

"Sometimes, when I'm listening to music...
when I listen to the Pixies, I feel like I could scream. I feel like my skin's coming right off me or something. I feel like a whole bunch of bones. It's like some music's got a direct line to my insides, and when I hear it, I go crazy all over, crazy and turned-on and hysterical and so different from the way I look to everyone on the outside that when I look in the mirror, I don't really recognize myself."

January 8, 2009

the hottest state

"Sometimes you meet somebody and you know, whatever you did before, nothing could've been too bad or too wrong because it's led you to this person."

January 7, 2009

the good life

"But it's not pain.  It's laughing with your friend at a time when you shouldn't.  It's the sweat in your palms wanting to know someone you see and the pit in your stomach when they actually see you.  It's being touched by hands that aren't your own.  It's the thrill of an escape that almost wasn't.  It's the embarrassment you feel, naked for the first time.  It's helping a friend find something they lost.  It's a smile, a joke, a song.  It's what someone does that they like doing.  It's what someone does that they like remembering.  It's the thinking of things you may never do and the doing of things you may never have thought.  It's the road ahead and the road behind.  It's the first step and the last and every one in between, because they all make up the good life."