Darling Clementine

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you.

– A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

This is the horror that, night after night,
Sits grinning on my pillow – that I meant
To mix the peace of being innocent
With the warm thrill of seeking out delight:
This is the final blasphemy, the blight
On all pure purpose and divine intent –
To dress the selfish thought, the indolent,
In the priest’s sable or the angel’s white.
For God’s sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it,
And do it for the pleasure. Do not say:
‘Behold the spirit’s liberty! – a minute
Will see the earthly vesture break away
And God shine through.’ Say: ‘Here’s a sin – I’ll sin it;
And there’s the price of sinning – and I’ll pay.’

– Gerald Gould

Yet it is in our idleness,
in our dreams,
that the submerged truth
sometimes comes to the top.

–Virginia Woolf

I’m not in the least bit suicidal, but I quite like this little quote.

I can’t think of anything to tell you as I’m so fed up with everything. It’s one of those days, more and more frequent, when I feel like ending it all. It won’t happen this time, but I am more or less convinced that I won’t be capable of holding out till the end of the year and what makes me think so is that I contemplate suicide with an extraordinary serenity- I will kill myself out of nonchalance, just let myself go, the way I let myself go to sleep in the cinema with the satisfaction of knowing that one could rouse oneself if ‘one wished’, but that one might just as well not.

A letter from François Truffaut to Robert Lachenay, April 1952

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It’s a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you’re relentless…And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I’m married to someone who is very jealous and you’re married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

— Maya Angelou