Nothing

“Besides, nothing is falling apart,” I say, fully aware how risky it is to say things like that out loud. “That I know of.”
- Origin, Diana Abu-Jaber

Broken

Lost In Translation

It was always the broken hand we learned to lean on after all.

- Iron & Wine

Past the Edges

The sea’s utter lust eats at the shores of my skin.
Here at last I can be lonely.
The sky has spilled all its secrets
And the crabs have gathered them to their caves.
The horizon drags my own secrets out with the tide,
Out beyond the islands
To where the world tapers.
Here I believe the world has an end,
That if I swim out far enough
I’ll plunge with all the fish across the brink
And fall through thickets of stars.
Even the universe, they say, has walls.
Out beyond the twilight’s keeping a door lies open.
I’d like to stand there with my back to all the light,
Looking out,
Then take a step.

- The Book of Flying, Keith Miller

Remembering

Film still from The Assassination of Jesse James

“It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.”
- The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

Death

“You know, there is no one alive now who was grown-up when I was a child. So I, as a child, am dead. Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead—when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that old person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Who whose death will make me truly dead?”
- Love’s Executioner: “Three Unopened letters,” Dr. Irvin D. Yalom

Jane Eyre

“That’s what happens when you bewitch a man’s horse—a lot of pain and cursing.”
- Mr. Rochester, Masterpiece: Jane Eyre

Penelope

"You!"

Max: Oh God! He licked me!

Lemon: Edward... Don't lick Max.

- Penelope

The Cell Block Tango

"And now the six merry murderesses of the Crookem County Jail in their rendition of "The Cell Block Tango."


Pop.
Six.
Squish.
Uh uh.
Cicero.
Lipshitz.