3 doors down - Here By Me

Copyright: Stock Exchange

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July

The Rasmus - Sail Away

Copyright: Frank Johannes

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Poison - Fallen Angel

Copyright: yuki

Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. "I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood moving through me- hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, if it stops flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. "Look, it's hard. You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? Because it's easier to pass for real, in the dark. And I don't want to have to pass. I want to be alive."

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

n., pl. lives

The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.

Copyright: XAG

Life might play tricks, but it demanded that you endured them; that was a basic duty you faced every morning when you awoke. If your dreams turned to dross, if your family banished you, if you lost the person you loved, and all hope of finding your heart's true resting place... you went on.

But God, it hurt.

"Homeland", John Jakes

John Barrowman - Being Alive

Copyright: Dylan Ricci

"I have been a hundred times upon the point of killing myself, but still I was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is, perhaps, one of the dangerous principles implanted in our nature. For what can be more absurd than to persist in carrying a burden of which we wish to be eased? to detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? In a word, to caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?"

Voltaire - Candide

Eagle Eye Cherry - Are You Still Having Fun?

Copyright: Dylan Ricci

"Life has always poppies in her hands. Of course, now and then things linger. I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die. Ultimately, however, it did die. I forget what killed it. [...]"

Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Grey

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

Copyright: Kai Z. Feng

The orphanage
put my picture
on a postcard.
My smile says
“Pick me! Pick me!”
But mostly, people say
I’m too old to adopt,
like I’m a run-down clock
(tick-tock, tick-tock)
and the big hand says
Julie is half-past loving.

Waiting by Nikki Grimes

Steve Carlson - I Don't Want To Know

Copyright: Albert Watson

[...]
The better days of life were ours;
The worst can be but mine:
The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers,
Shall never more be thine.
[...]
Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that still remain,
Than thus remember thee!
The all of thine that cannot die
Through dark and dread Eternity
Returns again to me,
And more thy buried love endears
Than aught except its living years.

And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair - Lord Byron

Sonata Arctica - Sing In Silence

Copyright: Tom Munro

[...] She might be ambitious, calculating, relentless, and merciless - but Lady Aquitaine meant what she said. She fully intended to do everything in her power to help Bernhard, to protect Tavi.

Isana shuddered and could not stop a low sob of relief from surging through her. The past days had been a nightmare of blood and fear and helpless frustration, a struggle to reach the man with the power to protect her family. She had reached Lady Aquitaine instead.

But, Isana realised, if Invidia could do as she claimed, if she could make certain that Bernard and Tavi were safe, then Isana would have no choice but to return that loyalty in good faith. She would become a part of something meant to tear down the First Lord, and willingly, if that was the price for protecting her own. She had committed herself.

Jim Butcher - Academ's Fury

Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule

[...] He stares at me. "I really don't understand you, you know."
I sigh. "Great. Thank you for that. Excuse me."
"Go play mind games with someone else, then," he calls after me.
While I make a point of never looking back with regret on anything I've ever done, I can't help but wonder if I was in my right mind on Monday afternoon.

Claire Hennessy - Good Girls Don't

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Depeche Mode - Damaged People

Copyright: nevertorun

[...] And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain

Steve Carlson - Sounds So Good

Copyright: Frank Johannes

[...] I was right. He knows everything. Like metaphors and nuclear reactors and Luke Skywalker's middle name and the ingedients of Cheerios. All in the same sentence!
So here's the deal: there's this town called Brigadoon in either Scotland or Ireland or one of those other bog places in England, where men wear skirts but don't have any balls and girls have balls but not any tits. Somehow they figured ot a way to come to life only one day out of every hundred years, and the guys who write it weren't even on mescaline. That's the good news.

Steve Kluger - Almost Like Being In Love

Jim Reeves - Just Walk On By

Copyright: Kai Z. Feng

jeal·ous·y /ˈdʒɛləsi/ [jel-uh-see]
–noun, plural -ous·ies.
1. jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
2. mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness, etc., as in love or aims.
3. vigilance in maintaining or guarding something.
4. a jealous feeling, disposition, state, or mood.

Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love

Copyright: Kai Z. Feng

[...] I began that very night to read every discarded news magazine I could find in hopes of learning more about him. Within a week I'd accumulated such a stack of them in my room that Auntie gave me a look as if I'd lost my mind. I did find mention of him in a number of articles, but only in passing, and none told me the sorts of things I really wanted to know. Still, I went on picking up every magazine I found poking out of a trash basket, until one day I came upon a stack of old papers tied in a bundle behind one of the teahouses.

Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha