6.14.10

"when you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. it's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. that's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. you get spun around, and in the morning... it takes awhile to find your way back to the world."
 -"the ice storm"

(image via we heart it)

 "although she feels she is a stranger in the house, she is not a stranger in this room. this room is her own, and it is the only place where she knows exactly who she is, and whom she is fighting against, and she would like to remain in it forever"

-shopgirl, steve martin

(photo courtesy of so much to tell you)

ok, and just a bit more from shopgirl-

"he continues his quest elsewhere for a single appropriate love with occasional dates, road trips, and flirtations, but he continues to care about mirabelle in a way that he cannot explain. his love for her is not the crazy love he expects to feel, the swinging delirious rhapsody that he has promised himself. this love is of a different kind, and he searches his mind for its definition"

that's it for the quotes- i didn't want to give too much away, but i truly love this story. it makes me feel warm inside.

spinning a cocoon

 

"he never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile"

-shopgirl, steve martin

i identify all too well with this quote.

(photo courtesy of hannah & landon)