City Girl Graphics
Friday, 06 November 2009
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theres no one in the world that feels the way i do
i am going absoulely crazy right now...
i decided im not going out tonight because some of the crazy things i have done the past couple weekends
but its honestly so hard for me when everyone is texting me
and telling me to come to their party or asking which party im attending...
i really need to shed this party girl imagedragonette - pick up the phone
on repeattt
As you get older there comes a time when you're
not scared of the dark or of monsters anymore. You
realize the dark is just the dark and monsters don't
don't exist. But it's also when you become scared of
other things, people themselves. You learn that not
everyone wants to see you succeed. You become aware
of people's underlying intentions and selfish actions.
& the monsters you used to check for under your bed at
night don't even compare to some of the things people do.
I need someone who can keep up with me.
I want someone aggressive, who pushes me
to my breaking point where I just wanna scream.
Someone who will tell me that I'm not always right,
and that sometimes i have to apologize for what i do wrong.
I need someone who's gonna set me straight
because no one has ever cared enough about me to try.She was the girl who dreamed, who saw things how
they were but never really let it get in the way of her
wishful thinking. She laughed and cried. She lived life
to the fullest; with no intentions of ever turning back
or regretting anything.
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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that girl loves danger, but she dont know when to stop
So I stopped watching, I stopped caring. I lost all interest, and I stopped wearing these plastic smiles. I'll wash my hands clean. I'll forget that you forgot about me. And I'll live the life, the big city feeling, cause it's better than suburban dreaming. Living off the friends that hate you, who talk shit on me. Like I don't know who my real friends are anymore. No, I don't know you anymore.
And this old highway seems to understand, leading me on to somewhere that no one knows my name. I got the window rolled down, I got the radio up, I'm doing all that I can to forget.
And, I feel like I'm standing in the center of a snow globe that some seven year old kid will not stop shaking. I feel like everything around me is going 105 miles an hour, and I'm just stuck standing in the middle of traffic.
Take these misunderstandings, and send them back where they came from. Take these misunderstandings, it's hard enough to live life as it is.
I still believe someday you and me will find ourselves in love again. If there's one spark of hope left in my grasp, I'll be holding it with both hands. It's worth the risk of burning to have a second chance.
I had the most wonderful feeling once. It's the feeling I just keep trying to find in all the wrong people, just to feel it again. The feeling I've felt for one person, the only time it was real, where I didn't have to try. I want it back.
I used to be such a burning example, I used to be so original. I used to care, I was being cared for. Made sure I showed it to those that I love. I
used to sleep without a single stir
I wonder when, when I'll finally understand. Why time can wash away love like it was made of sand. And it's wonderful the pain that comes with regret. Sometimes you have to see the beauty in all of this loneliness. The streetlights flicker, and they fade, like every good intention that I've had.
That night we talked, we talked about life, about our times together. Maybe we aren't the same two kids we once were, but some things never change. Some things last, and even though I didn't know what was going to happen to us or where we were going, I just knew I couldn't let you out of my life.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
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i cant accept the things ive done;
I really should be sleeping right now.
But i cant handle that time just before you fall asleep;
When your forced to think about the things youve avoided all day.
Mostly I think about my regrets or the person I've become and it makes me cringe.
So I stay awake long enough that when I go back to bed, I will drift away immediately.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
We'll pace the roads and we'll paint the skies. Our path is plagued with discontent goodbyes. We're striking the days so we can burn the nights, and I'll never look back on what I've left behind.I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know? I want to draw blind faith or a fading summer, or just a moment of clarity. It’s like, when you go and see a really great band, live for the first time and, you know, and nobody’s saying it, but everybody’s thinking it.. we have something to believe in again. I want to draw that feeling, but I can’t. And if I can’t be great at it, then I don’t want to ruin it. It’s too important to me."
And the light in your eyes makes me feel like there's something much better out thereIf you're feeling frightened about what comes next, don't be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don't waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you'll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart... where your hope lives. You'll find you’re way again.
Sometimes you don't want to know the truth. You may think you do, but once you know, you'd give just about anything to go back to being ignorant.
The only reason we hold back is because we think we have an endless amount of chances or that there will always be one more, but as time disappears into the past and life goes on, those chances will run out and you'll either live with eternal happiness for being brave, or eternal regret for holding back.i hate how dispensable I am to people. I hate how people feel they can just forget about me, replace me, erase me without even a second thought. It's like I don't matter to anyone. And hey, I mean I don't blame you. I'm no-one special. I just thought you were different. I had more faith in you. And you took that, ripped it up, shoved it in my face and walked away without ever looking back.
You know what I think hurts the most? The feeling of being replaced. It’s like no matter what you did, it wasn’t enough. And no matter what you do to try and capture their heart again, doesn’t seem to work. And you’re suddenly left thinking that you’ll never be enough. And a sudden sadness captures your heart that never really leaves.
I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.In some ways, you're pretty lucky. you opened your heart, you put yourself out there. you were ready to make that leap. i'm envious. i wish i knew what that felt like. to find someone who makes you wanna swim the east river in january.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
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everything is magic; until it becomes routine
You scared me away with your phone call, your texts, and your cute messages. I dont want you to love me because I know I can never love you back. I'll never love anyone. So I might as well stop leading you one.
sometimes i wish my eyes were not as wide,
and my dreams were not as big, and my heart was not as open.
Sometimes i just wish that i
didn't fall in love with the world so easily.anyone can get dressed up and glamorous
but it is how people dress in their days off
that are the most intriguing -alexander wangLove anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in the casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemale. To love is to be vulnerable.
i think that if i ever have kids and they're upset, i won't tell them that people are starving in china or something like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. and even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him
Sunday, 18 October 2009
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maybe if i can get some sleep, ill find some peace
partys will be the death of me
what was i thinking?
love wasnt meant for speed
theses weekends are killing me
once upon a time this was all i wanted,
but no one told me i would feel so empty
i love each and everyone of these quotes
I'm not supposed to be scared of anything, but I don't know where I am. I wish that I could move but I'm exhausted and nobody understands. I'm trying hard to breathe now, but there's no air in my lungs. There's no one here to talk to when the pain inside is making me numb.
"When you're a kid, it's Halloween candy. You hide it from your parents and you eat it until you get sick. In college, it's the heavy combo of youth, tequila and well... you know. As a surgeon, you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should. Because good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love, is not always a good thing."
I want to bust the world wide open the way you do when you're filled with youth. I want to engage with lovers and people and fellow cops. I want to be physical and I also want to ask the big questions. I want to taste the tastes and fix the problems. I want to run headlong into chaos and bad guys and darkness and friends and fun and laugh, laugh, laugh. I want to be the best friend and I want to be the greatest aunt and the most complicated daughter. I want to be the mystery in the room and I want to be known.
And then when your plane touches solid ground, and the taxi whisks you on into town, in the glittering lights I’ll be all around, cause we belong with each other.
Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette - a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know every twist of the road, every blade of grass, every face in this town and I am suffocating.
I love when the sky is gray.
When the dawn paints the roofs of the buildings and the sun is still hiding.
The city is ours then. Right before everyone takes over,
right when everyone is still sleeping.
It’s hard to notice that it’s so cold when it’s this pretty.I hope someday somebody wants to hold
you for 20 minutes straight and that's all
they do. they don't pull away. they don't look
at your face. they don't try to kiss you. all they
do is wrap you up in their arms without
an ounce of selfishness in it.Look a the stars.
They're the same stars as last week.
Last year.
Same as when we were kids.
When we weren't kids.
In a hundred years.
no one will ever know who we are.
But they'll know those same stars.We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art, because we desperately want to feel together. We want to know that we are not going crazy and that somewhere else out there, someone is feeling exactly what you are feeling. We love everything that is tied up neatly, easily, and simply but when we can not find that, it scares the hell out of us, to not know the next step, or where things are headed. Being unsure is never part of our plan. But it's those moments, the ones where you risk it and take a chance regardless of how vulnerable it makes us, that help us remember that life is larger than we'll ever know.
The city is making me sick, and the season's getting colder. And it's not helping now that we're growing so much older. In all this monotony, oh darling it's getting to me. And how do they expect for me to plan out my life so precisely? And all this negativity, you know it's getting to me. I just don't understand why we all can't run away. Oh, why can't we just run away?
Friday, 24 July 2009
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I'm trying to find truth in words, in rhymes, and notes. In all the things I wish I wrote.
you've trapped me, babe. you've trapped me with your eyes, and your smile, and your oh too cute words. when you told me you liked me, and you kissed my nose. when you squeezed my hand in yours and wrapped your arm around me and pulled me close, then i knew there was no escaping you.
Strange how a single conversation can change you.
Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.
A year passes and you know you feel differently,
but you’re not sure what or why or how, so your
mind casts back for something that might give
that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.
the bottom line is there's only one way to live and that's all the way. if you die, you die. 'cause i promise you, when you're my age you'll ask yourself, what the hell did i play it safe for?
all i am asking of you now, is just to take me back in time,
to the nights above the city when you asked if you were mine
the social norm has always been something that grates the back of my mind, but it's so much easier just to ask somebody what they did on the weekend and daydream while they talk. i hope you don't mind that i do that
it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals;
they seem so absurd and impractical.
yet i cling to them because i still believe, in spite of everything,
people are truly good at heart.
She doesn't believe in anything, but if you ask her, she'll say
there's plenty of things to believe in
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Whenever a stranger stands by me or passes,
I wonder whats on there mind and when they walk away..
I secretly miss them
My dad took me to Paris for the weekend. We had the most amazing time. On the plane back to London he asked me, "Do you know why I took you to Paris, only you and me?" And I said, "Why?" And he said, "Because I wanted you to see Paris for the first time with a man who you know will love you for the rest of your life."
My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing
I remember being thirteen years old, sitting in my room all night, listening to the same song over and over. I thought that if I could write something beautiful, something honest, I could make someone love me
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it
Monday, 29 June 2009
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why does it seem i like the way regret tastes?..
We sat together on billboards, watching the liquor slowly disappear, watching the sun dip into the sea, watching the cars race, watching the world crumble.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred
And whenever people say he's worthless,
I want to scream at them. I want to tell
them just how beautiful his smile is, just
how perfect his eyes are, just how cute
his lame jokes are, just how funny he is
when he’s happy, just how lost he is, and
just how much I love him.
Its our decision to live fast and die young
Consider how hard it is to change yourself,
and you'll understand what little chance you
have in trying to change others.
maybe thats not exactly the way it happened. but thats the way it should've happened and thats the way i like to remember it and if dreams and memories sometimes get confused, well that's as it should be. because every kid deserves to be a hero. every kid already is.
the drinks are flowing, just like the river
then she keeps going. the whole night ends with a blur.
she's got no limit. she thinks she's so tough, can't walk a straight line.
at the end of the night she's rough.
her dress whispers reckless
the night starts now as she slips off her necklace
Never forget what they did to you and
never let them know you remember
Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me. I should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free, and a little bit empty
Now I don't like using words like forever, but I will love you til the end of the day. And in the morning when I remember everything that you are, I know I'll fall for you all over again.
I like to look at strangers and think, maybe someone loves them.
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath
sometimes in your life, you need lust.
you need the adrenaline rush of knowing that this is not forever,
and that you're not committed to anything
You're blind to your beauty, but beauty sure ain't blind to you. You're intrigued by words, songs, photographs, anything that you can decode. Anything you can tear apart and bind within your mind.
Thursday, 25 June 2009
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maybe i'm just too selfish for love
What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking. And either way I’ve done it all my life, I don’t know who I am anymore.
I want to be able to call him and say, "I'm in one of those moods." And he would come over and I would lie against his soft warm body and listen to his steady and comforting breath. But, I'm not quite sure I can. I'm not quite sure he could fully understand, appreciate, and admire these "moods" of mine that come and go every now and then. And possibly that's where I'll grow bored. But yet, I've never been so physically comfortable with a human being before. Our bodies seem to read each other so perfectly, so precisely that there's no room or balance for our interests and brains and conscious. Why even bother trying? And maybe we don't need any of that nonsense anyway; the animals never did. But I can't constantly entertain his ego and his enthusiasm; especially when I find myself in these moods. And I don't want to be alone, and since we can't talk about it I just want him to be here. But how terrifying to a man, a woman in a "mood". How terribly awful would it be if it scared him away. And I'd hate to actually explain why my emotions do as they please and I naturally wouldn't want to bother exploring it. But I do want him here. But how can I explain any of this to him? I don't want every night to be action packed. Sometimes I often act my gender and I just want to sit and be with a warm securing body. (abellaluna)
unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. there are too many mediocre things in life, and love shouldn't be one of them.
I'm having trouble living in this world when I'm so fascinated with words and dreams. I just sit there concocting up beautiful images and scenarios in my mind. I'm having trouble relating to people. I don't understand who's genuine and who's not anymore. I'm having trouble understanding where I'm heading. I know what I want, and I know who I am, but I don't understand where I belong or who I belong with. I'm having trouble finding much happiness. I know happiness isn't a constant; sometimes it's just one moment when you catch a glimpse of the moon or one day when you realize how lucky you are to have something. But, I can't seem to find it at all anymore. I search and search, and I know I deserve it, but maybe it's time it searches for me. Even satisfying moments make me strangely nostalgic. I really don't know anymore. All I know are my books and my writing and others' words comfort me. It's the only way I can really understand things, by reading. (abellaluna)
There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave
You were what I wanted
I gave what I gave
I'm not sorry I met you
I'm not sorry it's over
I'm not sorry there's nothing to save
I don’t read poems, because they make me feel strong
No, I read them because they make me feel weak,
They give me emotions I haven’t felt for awhile.
I might feel sad, but I was determined not to look sad. I have long known that when you dress up, you cheer up.
Nothing of me is original. I am a combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.
Choose fucking up every chance you get in the pursuit of finding something pure.
This little girl was alone in the world
Until she found a way to get a fix for free
Oh pretty please
It breaks my heart to see another tragedy
She finally got her picture on TV
i don't know if you've ever felt like that, that you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist. i think wanting that is very morbid, but i want to when i get like this. that's why i try not to think. i just want it all to stop spinning
I know that night is not the same as day. That all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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im in paris with you
Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful
And I get tearful when I've downed a drink or two.
I'm one of your talking wounded.
I'm a hostage. I'm maroonded.
But I'm in Paris with you.
Yes I'm angry at the way I've been bamboozled
And resentful at the mess I've been through.
I admit I'm on the rebound
And I don't care where are we bound.
I'm in Paris with you.
Do you mind if we do not go to the Louvre
If we say sod off to sodding Notre Dame,
If we skip the Champs Elysées
And remain here in this sleazy
Old hotel room
Doing this and that
To what and whom
Learning who you are,
Learning what I am.
Don't talk to me of love. Let's talk of Paris,
The little bit of Paris in our view.
There's that crack across the ceiling
And the hotel walls are peeling
And I'm in Paris with you.
Don't talk to me of love. Let's talk of Paris.
I'm in Paris with the slightest thing you do.
I'm in Paris with your eyes, your mouth,
I'm in Paris with... all points south.
Am I embarrassing you?
I'm in Paris with you.
-James Fenton
Monday, 22 June 2009
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With every good-bye I can feel my hopeless romantic ideals slowly slipping away.
I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself, so, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then
For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
You and me will be lying side by side, forever, forever, underneath this adolescent sky, together, together. And you will hold my heart inside your hand and you’ll be the one to tell me, “oh, we’ve got a long, long way to go to get there. We’ll get there. But oh, if there’s one thing that we know, it’s that we will not grow old
You fall in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe you were the only one who could save him
I feel so unfulfilled in my life and as though I’m wasting my teenage years, but I’m not sure what to do about it.
I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible.
And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside
you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms
you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends …
you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder
what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how
in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that
happy. And sometimes, you can even convince yourself that he’ll see
the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all
that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make
you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back.
And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted,
that will eventually begin to fade.
And then I realized it isn't about love. It isn't about anniversaries and white picket fences. I started thinking that I didn't need love. I needed to be needed. I needed to be idolized. I needed to be that thing that a person stares at and wants more than anything in the world. I always thought love was, I don't know, this intangible, impossibly beautiful thing. But then I realized that there isn't anything like that in the world. Love isn't unreachable, and when you do reach it, it's definitely not entirely beautiful, and that was sort of disappointing for me. All those dreams I'd had when I was a little girl, all those epic poems and fairytales were useless and wrong. Eventually, though, I came to realize that I could be that beautiful thing. I could be the thing everyone reached for and dreamed about. I could be the thing that made a person feel incredible, and I could be the thing that tore them apart. I could be what love wasn't
Every night my dream’s the same same old city with a different name
They’re not coming to take me away, I don’t know why but I know I can’t stay.
There’s a weight that’s pressing down late at night you can hear the sound,
Even the noise you make when you sleep can’t swim across a river so deep
You know what I think hurts the most? The feeling of being replaced. It’s like no matter what you did, it wasn’t enough. And no matter what you do to try and capture their heart again, doesn’t seem to work. And you’re suddenly left thinking that you’ll never be enough. And a sudden sadness captures your heart that never really leaves.
You have no right to say a single word about me, my choices or my past. ‘Cause you weren’t there, and you didn’t get your heart broken, and you didn’t watch me bounce right back.
I want to spend the time I have doing things that make my heart rage.
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