The Gravel in Your Guts.
My writing. by Gabriel James Miranda. I write poetry and prose. I like good books and good tea. I am stranger among the stange. If you don't like to read, this isn't a good blog to follow. 
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light-petrichor: I Already Miss You— The Kooks
Doesn’t it kill you when a song reminds you of someone?
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“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
– Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
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Phoenix — If I Ever Feel Better
“Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
– Jonathan Franzen
“…’Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it’s a matter of not knowing where you aren’t — and I don’t care at all about where I’m not…”
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me.”
– Deanne Laura Pool —- This is what I mean when I say it.
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer —- This is what I mean when I say it. (via boxofoctaves)
“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer —- This is what I mean when I say it. (via boxofoctaves)
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via bookmania)
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Bob Dylan — I Want You
“There is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via aalaskaa)
Books are always there for me when I need them most.
“It was time to move on,” Sylvia said to Enid. “I saw it all of a sudden. That whether I liked it or not, the survivor and the artist was me, not her. We’re all conditioned to think of our children as more important than us, you know, and to live vicariously through them. All of sudden I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but I’m alive now. And I can live deliberately. I’ve paid the price, I’ve done the work, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.”
“And the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight— isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything that you’ve experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you’re seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.”
-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections.
It’s amazing how literature always manages to show me the right words when I am most in need of them.
