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“i want to appreciate the times when moments are made into memories. i want to embrace them, cherish them, and never forget that they come so few and so far between. i know that wherever life takes me these moments will always follow. they remind me of what’s truly important. It’s not just life but living. It’s the journey, the destination, and all the points i see between. and i must admit i like what i see.”
"i go to school, but i never learn what i want to know." - calvin and hobbes
"one can't complain. i have friends. somebody spoke to me only yesterday." - eeyore
"will i ever get to where i am going? if i do, will i know when i am there?" - incubus
"i try to speak but the tears choke the words and i think i finally know what they mean when they talk about joy." - mineral
“i wish somehow i didn’t know now what i didn’t know then.” - toby keith
"I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho." - Liz Phair, 'extraordinary'
"I can grow in spite of all you know. You might not recognize me tomorrow. Yes I can change." - liz phair, 'firewalker'
"I was a mess in my open eyed youth. I grew up thinking what's good for one, oppresses the other. It's my turn, my life, my way, mine, me." - liz phair, 'love/hate'
"I love my bionic eyes; I love my crystal vision. If there's anybody out there, baby, I'm not gonna miss 'em." - liz phair, 'bionic eyes'
"If there's a parallel nation and I'm a secret weapon, show me a man you cannot break -- and I will show you heaven." - liz phair, 'bionic eyes'
"People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions." - Ani Difranco 'Little Plastic Castle'
"They say goldfish got no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. The little plastic castle, is a surprise every time. It's hard to say if they are happy when they don't seem much to mind." - Ani Difranco 'Little Plastic Castle'
"'Cause when I look around, I think this, this is good enough and I try to laugh at whatever life brings, 'cause when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff. When I look up, I just trip over things." - Ani Difranco 'As Is'
"You can't hide behind social graces, so don't try to be all touchy feely 'cause you lie in my face of all places, but I've got no problem with that really." - Ani Difranco 'As Is'
"Yeah, I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof, like life is just a boring chore and I am living proof. I could join forces with an army of ornery hipsters, but then I guess I'd be out of a job. So I guess that's out of the picture." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'
"The man behind the counter looks like he's got a half a dozen places he'd rather be and furthermore it looks like he's prepared, to take it all out on me. Buddy, I don't really care what your problem is, just don't make it mine." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'
"I'm a pixie, I'm a paperdoll, I'm a cartoon, I'm a chipper cheerful free for all and I light up a room. I'm the color me, happy girl. Miss live and let live and when they're out for blood, I always give." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'
"And I teeter between tired and really, really tired. I'm wiped and I'm wired, but I guess it's just as well because I built my own empire." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'
"I've got a lack of inhibition, I've got a loss of perspective, I've had a little bit to drink and it's making me think that I can jump ship and swim, that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'
"'Cause they can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant, if i succeed. Gravity is nothing to me, moving at the speed of sound. I'm just going to get my feet wet until I drown." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'
"Trapped in my glass house, crowd has been gathering since dawn. Make a pot of coffee, while catastrophe awaits me out on the lawn. Think I'm going to stay in today, pretend like I don't know what's going on." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'
"Guess that push has come to this, so I guess this must be shove, but before you throw those stones at me, tell me what's your house made of and before you'll know what I'm doing wrong, you're going to have to get in line for the purposes of this song. Lets just say I'm doing fine. Sure, I'm doing fine." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'
"Sitting in my glass house, while your ghost is sleeping down the hall, watching the little birds fly kamikaze missions into the walls. Think I'm gonna stay in today sit on my couch and watch them fall." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'
"I have gotten out of everything I've gotten into so far. I eat when I am hungry and I travel alone, and just outside the glow of the house is where I feel most at home." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'
"The one person who really knows me best says I'm like a cat. Yeah, the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap. No, the kind that doesn't mind being held, only when it's her idea. Yeah, the kind that feels what she decides to feel, when she is good and ready to feel it." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'
"And I know that sometimes all I can see, is how I feel, like the whole world is on the other side of a dirty windshield and I'm tryin to see through the glare. Yes, I'm struggling just to see what's there." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'
"But I just want to walk through my life unarmed, to accept and just get by." - Ani Difranco 'Angry Anymore'
"I know this song, with this one really killer line. I don't remember it exactly, but it slays me every time." - Ani Difranco 'I Know This Bar'
"Driving, trying hard to resist sleeps first kiss. Every time I have time to think, I think of this." - Ani Difranco 'Cloud Blood'
"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
"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'
"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'
"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'
"let's just say that things look different now; different in so many ways." - ani difranco, 'superhero'
"i think guilt and innocence -- they are a matter of degree. what might be justice to you, might not be justice to me." - ani difranco, 'crime for crime'
"If it weren't for my brain I'd go over and make friends. Too bad about my brain 'cause I'd like to make friends." - Ani Difranco 'This Bouquet'
"got a garden of songs where i grow all my thoughts; wish i could harvest one or two for some small talk." - ani difranco, 'this bouquet'
"I'm tired of being the interesting one; I'm tired of having fun for two." - ani difranco, 'asking too much'
"I'm not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you and I would like to state for the record, I did everything I could do. I'm not saying that I'm a saint, I just don't want to live that way. No, I will never be a saint." - Ani Difranco '32 Flavors'
"there's many who've turned out their porch lights, just so I would think they were not home; and hid in the dark of their windows til I'd passed and left them alone." - ani difranco, '32 flavors'
"I am thirty-two flavors and then some." - ani difranco, '32 flavors'
"I am a poster girl with no poster." - ani difranco, '32 flavors'
"maybe the moral higher ground ain't as high as it seems. maybe we are both good people done some bad things." - ani difranco, 'hour follows hour'
"no I don't prefer obscurity, but I'm an idealistic girl. and I wouldn't work for you -- no matter what you paid." - ani difranco, '1,000,000'
"and I may not be able to change the whole fucking world, but I could be the million that you never made." - ani difranco, '1,000,000'
"I'd like to go to all the pretty parties, where all the pretty people go. and I ain't really all that pretty, but nobody will know." - ani difranco, '1,000,000'
