i know when the stars are aligned you can bump into a person in the middle of the road, look into their eyes and you suddenly know

"I had a cold and I took all my antibiotics at the same time and now, I can't remember how to."
-said by Brittany on Glee (Episode 1x17, Bad Reputation)

"I'm gonna ask you to stop, because I'm starting to get embarrassed for you."
-said by Mercedes on Glee (Episode 1x18, Laryngitis)

Burt Hummel: "If things get serious, use protection."
Brittany: "Does he mean like a burglar alarm?"
-said by Brittany on Glee (Episode 1x18, Laryngitis)

I'm on the edge of glory
And I'm hanging on a moment of truth
I'm on the edge of glroy
And I'm hanging on a moment of you
-"Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga

No words
My tears won't make any room for them, oh
And it don't hurt
Like anything I've ever felt before
This is no broken heart
No familiar scars
This territory's uncharted
... Follow if you want
I won't just hang around
Like you'll show me where to go
I'm already out of fool proof ideas
So don't ask me how to get started
It's all uncharted ...
I won't go as a passenger, no
Waiting for the road to be laid
Though I may be going down
I'll take in flame over burning out
-"Uncharted" by Sara Bareilles

I've been a lot of places all around the way
I've seen a lot of joy, and I've seen a lot of pain
But I don't wanna write a love song for the world
I just wanna write a song about a boy and a girl ...
I know when the stars are aligned you can
Bump into a person in the middle of the road
Look into their eyes and you suddenly know
-"Say Hey (I Love You)" by Michael Franti

"'But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?' Dad was still smiling but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed his speech. 'You don't. You just work through it. You just hang in there.'"
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"I thought that getting to this part was the challenge. In books and movies, the stories always end when two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman


"She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her tie. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come on back. You're waiting for her."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"Guys who'd never given me a second glance did a double take. And every time that happened, I felt a little bit more like the risky sexy chick I was pretending to be. Fake it till you make it actually worked."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"Mom was so ferociously protective of people she loved, so much that she took insults upon them personally."

-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"I'd played that part of my life out It was time. I didn't even think twice about it ... Sometimes you make choice in life and sometimes the choices make you."

-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"I never expected to fall in love. I was never the kind of girl who had crushes on rock stars or fantasies about marrying Brad Pitt. I sort of vaguely knew that one day I'd have a boyfriend (in college, if Kim's prediction was anything to go by) and get married. I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy day day dreams about falling in love. Even as I was falling in love -- full throttle, intense, can't-erase-that-goofy-smile-love -- I didn't really register what was happening."

-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"I hadn't really expected much to change. He'd still live nearby. We'd still see each other all the time. I'd miss our little powwows in the music wing, but I would also be relieved to have our relationship out from under the microscope of high school."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"'I remember last year when Adam came over for Christmas Eve, I'd told your father that you'd fallen in love too soon.' 'I know, I know. What does a dumb kid know about love?' Mom stopped drying a skillet. 'That's not what I meant. The opposite, really. You and Adam never struck me as a 'high-school' relationship,' Mom said, making quote marks with her hands. ... 'You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply.' She sighed. 'But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.'"
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"Remembering Adam would be like losing him all over again, and I'm not sure I can bear that on top of everything else."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"Suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than I've ever needed anything in this world. Not just be held by it, but hold it back."
-from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
-"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables

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

an invincible summer

It's been awhile ... Here are some new favorites ... :)

Keep drinking coffee, staring me down across the table
While I look outside
So many things I'd say if only I were able,
But I just keep quiet and count the cars that pass by
You've got opinions, man
We're all entitled to 'em, but I never asked
So let me thank you for your time,
Try not to waste anymore of mine
Get out of here fast
I hate to break it to you babe
But I'm not drowning
There's no one here to say
Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me,
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be,
Who died and made you king of anything?
-"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles


"I finally learned that there lay within me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus


All the things I still remember
Summers never looked the same
Years go by and time just seems to fly
But the memories remain
In the middle of September
We'd still play out in the rain
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
Reflecting now on how things could've been
It was worth it in the end
-"September" by Daughtry


"Sometimes in life, there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you, sometimes better than you know yourself, is the same person who's been standing beside you all along."
-from Bride Wars

Mmm, and come September,
Mmm, I will remember,
Mmm, my camping days and friendships true.
Mmm, and as the years go by,
Mmm, I'll think of you and sigh,
Mmm, this is goodnight and not goodbye
-"Linger" (a camp song)

Moon on the meadow, bugs in our ears
Smoke in our eyes, wet wood and tears
Up on the meadow, water somewhere
We were the only ones there
Wild horses rushing, dry lakes and peaks
Finding the love that everyone seeks
Hiking to rainbows, sunsets and stars
Finding out just who we are
We will return here
One lucky day
Our hearts will guide us
They know the way
People and cities don't understand
Falling in love with the land
Moon on the meadow, bugs in our ears
Smoke in our eyes, wet wood and tears
Out on the meadow, water somewhere
With you my friend, we were there
-"Moon on the Meadow" (a camp song)

"At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren't, we take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we touch ..."
-from "Grey's Anatomy" (Season 3, Episode 17 - Some Kind of Miracle)

"For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything you come across -- hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me."
-from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Book 1) by Rick Riordan