i still believe in summer days, the seasons always change, and life will find a way

"I mean, I didn't get the answer I wanted. But it didn't keep me from keeping on."
-Haylie Reinhardt, one of the Top-24 contestants on American Idol who was cut last season

They say that things just cannot grow
Beneath the winter snow
Or so I've been told ...
This is my winter song
December never felt so wrong
'Cause you're not where you belong ...
I still believe in summer days
The seasons always change
And life will find a way
-"Wintersong" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michalson

"Have fables fallen so far out of fashion that the Princesses have to do everything themselves? Call us old school, but sometimes the Fairy Tale ending requires the Knight to get off his ass and saddle up his steed."
-from Gossip Girl (Episode 1.06, The Handmaiden's Tale)

"In the beginning, there was no baseball. But ever since, there have been few beginnings as good as the start of baseball season. It is the most splendid time in sport."
-written by B.J. Phillips, but read by Dan Dickerson over the radio to start the Tigers spring training home-opener

"I believe in the good ... I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive."
-said by Izzie on Grey's Anatomy (Episode 3.16, Drowning on Dry Land)

"Every year has it's own story, it's own little twist to it."
-Brennan Boesch 

"It's less fatiguing if you stay balanced with your mind frame, and don't get too high or low, and that's definitely something I'm toying around with."
-Brennan Boesch 

"Pressure is relative. There's pressure on everyone here. Everyone has their own idea of what they want to accomplish, what they want to do."
-Brennan Boesch

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free
-"Blackbird" by the Beatles

"I hope you end up caring about Bree as much as I do, though that's kind of a cruel wish. You know this: it doesn't end well for her. But at least you will know the whole story. And that no perspective is ever really trivial."
-Stephenie Meyer's introduction to The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

in your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team ...

In your life
You'll do things greater than
Dating the boy on the football team,
I didn't know it at fifteen
When all you wanted was to be wanted
Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now
Back then I swore I was gone marry him someday,
But I realized some bigger dreams of mine
Abigail gave everything she had
To a boy who changed his mind
And we both cried ...
I've found time can heal most anything
And you might just find who you're supposed to be
I didn't know who I was supposed to be
-"Fifteen" by Taylor Swift

"When she shall die, take him and cut him out in the little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with the night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
-from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

"People inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make."
-Robert Hughes

We were best friends, now we don't even talk
You broke my heart
Ripped my world apart
Didn't you know how much I loved you?
Didn't you know how much I loved you, baby?
I gave you everything, every part of me
Didn't you feel it when I touched you
Didn't I rock you when I loved you, baby?
Baby, tell me
Didn't you know how much I loved you? ...
From wanting you back to not giving a damn
I've felt it all
I've been to the wall
-"Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You?" by Kellie Pickler

Take my hand
Break my stride
Make me smile
For every time I've cried
Hold my heart
In the palm of your hand
Don't listen to it breaking,
Just listen to the band ...
My hands are tied
My head is reeling
My eyes have cried a million tears
From wishing you were here
-"A Million Tears" by Kasey Chambers

"Haven't you heard? I'm the crazy bitch around here."
-Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl (Season 1, Episode 18, "Much I Do About Nothing")

and they said speak now ...

Chuck: "I'm going to have to tell my parents the hotel they just bought is serving minors."
Serena: "And if you get a drink, they're also serving pigs."
-from Gossip Girl, Season 1 (Episode 1, Pilot)

Gossip Girl (voice over): "Revenge. We hear it's best served cold. Who's hungry?"
-from Gossip Girl, Season 1 (Episode 2, The Wild Brunch)

Gossip Girl (voice over): "It takes two to tango, and girls like these never go down without a fight."
-from Gossip Girl, Season 1 (Episode 3, Poison Ivy)

Blair: "Well, I'm done guessing. I want answers! And no one likes to be on the ground floor of a scandal like Chuck Bass."
Chuck: "I am a bitch when I want to be."
Blair: "Opportunity to cause some trouble, uncover a secret?"
Chuck: "I say yes for an answer."
-from Gossip Girl, Season 1 (Episode 3, Poison Ivy)

Gossip Girl (voice over): "Spotted in Central Park. Two white flags waving. Could an Upper East peace accord be that far off? So what will it be? Truce or consequences? We all know one nation can't have two queens."
-from Gossip Girl, Season 1 (Episode 3, Poison Ivy)

Kit: "Well, he's not a bum. He's a rich, classy guy."
Vivian: "Who's gonna break my heart, right?"
Kit: "Oh no, c'mon -- you don't know that. Hey, he asked you, right? Maybe you guys could like, um, you know, get a house together and buy some diamonds and a horse. I don't know. Anyway, it could work! It happens!"
Vivian: "When does it happen, Kit? When does it really happen? Who does it really work out for? Did it work out for skinny Marie or Rachel? No."
Kit: "Those are very specific cases of crack heads."
Vivian: "I just wanna know who it works out for. You give me one example of somebody that we know that it happened for."
Kit: "Name someone? You want me to name someone? You want me to like, give you a name or something?"
Vivian: "Yea, I'd like a name."
Kit: "Oh, god, the pressure of a name ... Cinda-fuckin-rella."
-from Pretty Woman