December 2008
Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me” Look What happens with a love like that It lights the whole sky
— Hafiz
“I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is...”
Books
I love books. Call me what you will, but I love them, the spine, and the pages. Filling my bookshelf. Hardback, paperback, I don’t discriminate. I’m a sucker for an attractive cover but I’m not a cover whore. I still read what they’re about before taking them to the counter. Barnes and Noble is my candy store. I see shelves and shelves of information that I want to digest. Who has the time? How...
As cliche as it may be, I believe the idea that we meet certain people in our lives for a reason. Each person has something to teach or show us or us, them. Sometimes they reveal something about ourselves to us. Mirrors. They are all lessons and once the lesson is learned, once they’ve taught or shown us what they are intended to teach or show, we move on; wiser. Until we find the person who is...
It didn’t kill him, didn’t even make him stronger; just another day older and no closer to a death that would never come. He stepped from the smoking wreckage of the car and dusted himself down. He’d be sore and stiff for a few days, but that was about all. He wasn’t sure why he still did it after all these years, but then he guessed that if the only thing worth living for was dying, he had to...
In the end, he said: “Look, I’m a complete and utter asshole. I have a very, very small heart and I can only care for limited periods of time. 37.81 seconds, to be exact. I’ve timed it with my stopwatch. If I go over that time limit, I get dizzy and puke. I can’t care for other people. And if I wanted to love you back, I’d have to get another heart because my tiny, little one cannot support...
