Ani DiFranco Quotes ... Page 6

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"i'm gonna miss you when you're gone. yeah i'm gonna be torn. just remember that i love you; just remember you were warned." - ani difranco, 'outta me, onto you'

"let's just say that things look different now; different in so many ways." - ani difranco, 'superhero'

"i used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. you are like a phone booth i somehow stumbled into, and now look at me -- i am just like everybody else." - ani difranco, 'superhero'

"if i was dressed in my best defenses, would you agree to meet me for coffee?" - ani difranco, 'superhero'

"tell me what did you like about me? don't say my strength and daring. 'cuz now i think i'm at your mercy and it's my first time for this kind of thing." - ani difranco, 'superhero'

"i wake up in the night and i don't know where the bathroom is, and i don't know what town i'm in; or what sky i am under. and i wake up in the darkness and i don't have the will anymore to wonder." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"everyone has a skeleton and a closet to keep it in." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"when i need to wipe my face, i use the back of my hand. and i like to take up space just because i can. and i use my dress to wipe up my drink. i care less and less what people think." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"and you are so lame, you always disappoint me." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"i just want you to live up to the image of you i create. i see you and i'm so unsatisfied; i see you and i dilate." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"so i'll walk the plank, and i'll jump with a smile. if i'm gonna go down, i'm gonna do it with style. and you won't see me surrender -- you won't hear me confess; 'cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"when i say you sucked my brain out the english translation is i am in love with you and it is no fun." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"but i don't use words like love, 'cuz words like that don't matter. but don't look so offended, you know, you should be flattered." - ani difranco, 'dilate'

"and i guess that you dialed my number, 'cuz you thought for sure that i'd agree. i said, 'baby, you know i still love you, but how dare you complain to me.'" - ani difranco, 'napoleon'

"i cannot name this; i cannot explain this, and i really don't want to -- just call me shameless." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"i can't even slow this down; let alone stop this. and i keep looking around, but i cannot top this." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"if i had any sense, i guess i'd fear this. i guess i'd keep it down, so no one would hear this. i guess i'd shut my mouth and rethink a minute, but i can't shut it now 'cuz there's something in it." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"we're in a room without a door and i am sure without a doubt, they're gonna wanna know how we got in here, and they're gonna wanna know how we plan to get out. we better have a good explanation for all the fun that we had 'cuz they are coming for us, baby -- they are going to be mad." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"i'll take off my disguise; the mask you met me in. 'cuz i got something for you to see. just gimme your skeleton; give me the skin it's in. yeah baby, this is you -- according to me." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"then i get to see how close i can get to it without giving in. then i get to rub up against it till i break the skin." - ani difranco, 'shameless'

"there's just a couple things i'd like to know; like how could you do nothing and say, 'i'm doing my best?' how could you take almost everything and then come back for the rest? how could you beg me to stay, reach out your hands and plead, and then pack up your eyes and run away as soon as i agreed?" - ani difranco, 'done wrong'

"i guess that makes me the jerk with the heartache here to sing you about how i've been done wrong." - ani difranco, 'done wrong'

"it just all slips away so slowly; you don't even notice till you've lost a lot." - ani difranco, 'done wrong'

"and now i'm tired, and i am broke. and i feel stupid and i feel used. and i'm at the end of my little rope, and i am swinging back and forth about you." - ani difranco, 'done wrong'

"i put a cup out on the window sill to catch the water as it fell. now i got a glass half full of rain to measure the time between when you said you'd come and when you actually came." - ani difranco, 'going down'

"little mister limp dick is up to his old tricks and thought he'd call me one last time, but i'm just about done with the oh-woe-is-me shit, and i want everything back that's mine." - ani difranco, 'going down'

"tonight you stooped to my level; i am your mangy little whore. you are trying to find your underwear, and then your socks and then the door." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"and you're trying to find a reason why you have to leave." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"you rhapsodize about beauty and my eyes glaze. everything that i love is ugly; i mean really, you would be amazed." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"just do me a favor; it's the least that you can do -- just don't treat me like i am something that happened to you." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"you put a tiny pinprick in my big red balloon. and as i slowly start to exhale, that's when you leave the room. i did not design this game, i did not name the stakes. i just happen to like apples, and i am not afraid of snakes." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"i envy your ignorance; i hear that it's bliss." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"and i wonder what of this will have meaning for you when you've left it all behind. i guess i'll even wonder if you meant it at the time." - ani difranco, 'adam and eve'

"i do it for the joy it brings, because i'm a joyful girl. because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world." - ani difranco, 'joyful girl'

"everything i do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong. but oh well 'cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged, and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say." - ani difranco, 'joyful girl'

"and i wonder if everything i do, i do instead of something i want to do more." - ani difranco, 'joyful girl'

"i know that there's no grand plan here; this is just the way it goes. and when everything else seems unclear, i guess at least i know." - ani difranco, 'joyful girl'

"I gotta beeline double time. Leave my home sweet home for your honeycomb." - Ani Difranco 'Ain't That The Way'

"Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?" - Ani Difranco 'Ain't That The Way'

"Love makes me feel so dumb. 'Cause I love you and you love me and ain't that the way it's supposed to be? Yeah, 'cause I love you and you love the me. Ain't that the way it's supposed to be?' - Ani Difranco 'Ain't That The Way'

"Meanwhile anguish was fingering solace in another room down the hall. Both were love's accomplices but solace took the fall. Now look at her book of days, it's the same on every page. She's got a little tin cup with her heart in it to bang along the bars of her rib cage." - Ani Difranco 'Fierce Flawless'

"But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me and, you know, they never really owned you, you just carried them around and then one day you put 'em down and found your hands were free." - Ani Difranco 'Garden of Simple'

"And what I meant to say is, 'xxoo' which means I'm thinking of ya. Which means I've been thinking of you all along." - Ani Difranco 'Garden of Simple'

"It's a heartbreak even situation. Nothing lost and nothing gained." - Ani Difranco 'Heartbreak Even'

"You try not to let your emotions show, but it ain't a balloon you can just let go." - Ani Difranco 'Heartbreak Even'

"It's a heartbreak even situation. One part powerful elation, one part pitiful and frail and I'm trying to feel my way around a book of promises written in braille." -Ani Difranco 'Heartbreak Even'

"There is pressure from within this and pressure from above. There is pressure on our tenuous, strenuous love and there's wet wool blankets one, two, three, laid onto my chest 'til i just can't breathe ." -Ani Difranco 'Heartbreak Even'

"It's rock, paper, scissors as to whether I will get over you at all. It's hand against hand and both hands are mine. It's standing in a circular line, which is not to say that I'm not also happy." - Ani Difranco 'Rock Paper Scissors'

"I think I could accept all these dark colors as just part of some bigger color scheme if it wasn't for that drippy string quartet of sadness underscoring each smiling scene. Yeah, desire drags me right out of myself." - Ani Difranco 'Rock Paper Scissors'

"I'm getting pretty good at looking at the bright side while the flames ripple on the sand and swallow me whole, but this melancholy that I carry makes me feel so grown up at my kitchen table doing shots of resignation. I never thought I'd see the day when I would say, I give up and break the stallions of my wildest expectations." - Ani Difranco 'Rock Paper Scissors'