Ginger Magnum

“ Sometimes he thought of past love affairs as graffiti written across the story of his life. Most of it was easily wiped away with a rag and any kind of cleaning fluid. In contrast, there were some scribbles that had been drawn on with black permanent ink. These were tougher to remove. Sometimes no matter how much he rubbed and scrubbed, faint traces of them remained for a long time. Finally there was the graffiti that had been carved deep into his surface with a sharp knife and fierce determination. It was usually small because any carving *that* deep took time and real effort. But it was the most permanent. No way could he ever erase it unless layers of himself were sanded away and obviously that was impossible. The only thing to do was accept it as part of his being now, like a scar or a bad tattoo. As it aged in years to come, it became less visible but never disappeared.   —  JONATHAN CARROLL

“ My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time…   —  JONATHAN CARROLL

“ That’s one of the nicest things about physical intimacy— for a little while you got to see your partner at their most vulnerable. However that’s also a problem with certain people. Because sometimes we take our new knowledge of that surprisingly fragile person into the everyday but they do not. They leave “naked fragile me” back in the bedroom. So if you try to address this being, they either don’t recognize who you’re talking to, or resent you’ve witnessed that side of them.   —  JONATHAN CARROLL

“ When they were together, it touched him that she so frequently used and wrote the word “forever” when referring to their relationship. It was only after it had ended did he realize her definition of the word meant “right now” as opposed to, well, forever.   —  JONATHAN CARROLL

"The past beats within me, like a second heart." — John Banville  - The Sea

"I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." — Albert Camus,  L’etranger

I can not love you with a love
         That outcompares the boundless sea,
 For that were false, as no such love
         And no such ocean can ever be. But I can love you with a love
         As finite as the wave that dies
 And dying holds from crest to crest
         The blue of everlasting skies. ―  Angela Manalang-Gloria , excerpt from  To the Man I Married

"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it." ―  Claude Monet

"I hate you God. I hate you as though you actally exist." -Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

" I hate a Roman named Status Quo!" he said to me. "Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It is more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock that great sloth down in his ass." -Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

"Those who are hardest to love, need it the most." Peaceful Warrior

"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she is easy, she won't be amazing. If she is worth it you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy......Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just got to find the one's worth suffering for." Bob Marley

"She was a truly beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep, convoluted pasageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all." Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance

"I seek images that don't exist, and if they do they're crumpled and concealed like summer clothes in the winter, when frost stings the mouth." Adam Zagajewski,  The Room I Work In

"If there is no God, then I am God." Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed (1872)