Friday, July 29, 2016

A Single Man with Money — Jane Austen


“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Individuality — Cadet Kelly


“I would really like to try and retain my individuality"

Kelly Collins (Hilary Duff)
Cadet Kelly

Monday, July 25, 2016

War time — Jeremy Laszlo


“With expanding civilizations came the discovery of neighbors. With that discovery came borders. With borders came disputes and ultimately wars erupted from time to time"

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Chess Piece — The Young Victoria


PRINCESS VICTORIA         Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.
. . .
PRINCE ALBERT                 Then you had better master the rules of the game until you play it better than they can.
PRINCESS VICTORIA         You don't recommend I find a husband to play it for me?
PRINCE ALBERT                 I should find one to play it with you, not for you.

Princess Victoria (Emily Blunt) & Prince Albert (Rupert Friend)
The Young Victoria

Monday, July 18, 2016

Breaking Point — Digital Summer


“Don't give a damn no more,
I'm just sick of it all
I'm at the breaking point"

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Kindness of Strangers — Lucia Jordan


“the kindness of strangers was a rare and wonderful thing that was to be encouraged whenever possible."

Lucia Jordan
Make Me Naked

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Stories — Cadet Kelly


“there are some stories that have to be told"

Kelly Collins (Hilary Duff)
Cadet Kelly

Friday, July 15, 2016

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Learning & Past — The Lion King


“the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki (Robert Guillaumen)
The Lion King

Monday, July 11, 2016

Killing Words — Sally Gardner


“Words were like knives that had the power to cut through to the soul. Stones may hurt but words, he had no doubt, were strong enough to kill."

Sally Gardner
The Double Shadow

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Death and Life — The Fellowship of the Ring


“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Gandalf (Ian McKellen)
The Fellowship of the Ring

Saturday, July 09, 2016

Caring — Nina Simone


“There's nothing like knowing that you care for somebody And somebody cares for you"

Nina Simone
Touching and Caring

Friday, July 08, 2016

Produced Childhood — Ivan Illich


“If there was no age-specific and obligatory learning, ‘childhood’ would go out of production."

Ivan Illich
Deschooling society

Thursday, July 07, 2016

Loving somebody — Kirk Franklin


“Love a word that comes and goes, But few people really know what it means to really love somebody"

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Unloved Addicts — Jennifer Weiner


[about addicts]
“You wouldn´t want to think about how many people like him there were out in the world, unsupervised, untethered, unloved. At least you´d want to believe they were untethered and unloved, that they didn´t have wives, or sons, or daughters, because you certainly wouldn´t want to think about that. "

Jennifer Weiner
Then Came You

Monday, July 04, 2016

Friday, July 01, 2016

Hurting those we love — The Green Mile


“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world."

John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan)
The Green Mile

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

People being ugly — The Green Mile


“I'm tired of people being ugly to each other."

John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan)
The Green Mile

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Friday, June 24, 2016

Short Life — Lights


“Seeing life come and go all the time, It's never as long as you wish it was"

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Ohana means Family — Lilo & Stitch


LILO         "Ohana" means family. Family means...
LILO, NANI         ...nobody gets left behind.
LILO         Or...?
NANI         ...or forgotten.

Lilo (Daveigh Chase) & Nani (Tia Carrere)
Lilo & Stitch

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Destructive School — Ivan Illich


“The escalation of the schools is as destructive as the escalation of weapons but less visibly so."

Ivan Illich
Deschooling society

Monday, June 20, 2016

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Attitude & Change — Barry White


“The key to life is your attitude
Make sure you doing what you wanna do
And watch your goals unfold right before your eyes "

Barry White
Change [Change]

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Friday, June 17, 2016

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Bad Decisions— Jennifer Weiner


“The thing about bad decisions is that they don´t feel like bad decisions when you´re making them. They feel like the obvious choice, the of-course-that-makes-sense move. They feel, somehow, inevitable."

Jennifer Weiner
Then Came You

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Delicate Humans — Lilo & Stitch


[about humans:]
“they're very delicate. In fact, every time an asteroid strikes their planet, they have to begin life all over."

Pleakley (Kevin McDonald)
Lilo & Stitch

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Monday, June 13, 2016

Schools Influence — Ivan Illich


“School touches us so intimately that none of us can expect to be liberated from it by something else."

Ivan Illich
Deschooling society

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Knowingly Rich — Dirty Dancing


“they're so rich, they're so goddamn rich, you think they must know about everything."

Johnny (Patrick Swayze)
Dirty Dancing

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Friday, June 10, 2016

Friend — Lilo & Stitch


“I need someone to be my friend. Someone who won't run away."

Lilo (Daveigh Chase)
Lilo & Stitch

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Happy Me — Jennifer Weiner


“All I´d wanted was for someone to be happy for me – happy with me, straight-up happy, not happy with questions, or happy with reservations, or happy but confused, or not happy at all"

Jennifer Weiner
Then Came You

Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Standing up — Dirty Dancing


“there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them."

Johnny (Patrick Swayze)
Dirty Dancing

Sunday, June 05, 2016

The Destructiveness of Welfare Institutions— Ivan Illich


“no amount of dollars can remove the inherent destructiveness of welfare institutions, once the professional hierarchies of these institutions have convinced society that their ministrations are necessary."

Ivan Illich
Deschooling society

Saturday, June 04, 2016

Friday, June 03, 2016

Thursday, June 02, 2016

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Fragile Moments — Lauren Oliver


“There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: it is all glass."

Lauren Oliver
Pandemonium

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Books are — Lauren Oliver


[About Books]
“Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them - the best ones - are doors."

Lauren Oliver
Pandemonium

Monday, May 30, 2016

Caring — Verda Colvin


“At the end of the day everybody really cares about everybody else. We’re just all trying to find a way to do that."

Judge Verda Colvin
11alive interview

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Being concerned — Laura Hardy


“when you were concerned about someone who had always been close to you, you tended to leap at tiny details and magnify them."

Laura Hardy
Dark Fantasy

Friday, May 27, 2016

Unconscious Decisions — Peter W. Murphy


“A lot of our opinions, attitudes and beliefs about people are the result of unconscious decisions about the way it is."

Peter W. Murphy
Always Know What To Say

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Friday, May 20, 2016

Getting Angry — Dean Koontz


“Maybe if a lot more people had gotten angry enough decades ago, the country wouldn’t have reached such perilous straits"

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Finding Real Love — Dean Koontz


“Real love, true and deep, wasn’t easy to find even once. Nearly impossible to find twice."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Respecting People — Dean Koontz


“The world’s crawling with people who don’t respect anyone or anything, but we’re supposed to respect them"

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Friday, May 13, 2016

Thursday, May 12, 2016

TV News Ratings — Dean Koontz


“Those bastards on the TV news, they always have to show you the blood, get the ratings."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

No Neighbors — Dean Koontz


“The news unfailingly confirmed the wisdom of living in a far place with no neighbors in view."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Monday, May 09, 2016

Fragile Body — Dean Koontz


“Worse than the pain was the sense of violation and vulnerability, a terrible frantic awareness of the true fragility of the human body."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Sunday, May 08, 2016

Twisted Facts — 12 Angry Men


“I'm sick and tired of facts! You can twist 'em anyway you like"

Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
12 Angry Men

Saturday, May 07, 2016

Reasonable Doubt — 12 Angry Men


“we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system."

Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
12 Angry Men

Friday, May 06, 2016

What Truth — 12 Angry Men


“I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know."

Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
12 Angry Men

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Sympathic Cop — Dean Koontz


“Sometimes a cop couldn't do much more for a victim than nod in sympathy and shake his head in sorry amazement at the depths into which the city was sinking."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Sunday, May 01, 2016

Envy as Theft — Dean Koontz


“envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions... then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money."

Dean Koontz
Winter Moon

Saturday, April 30, 2016

The Worst about Love — Madeleine Hunter


“The worst thing about love was that it lacked certainty, and perhaps permanence. It also made one weak -- and sentimental and impractical and jealous and protective. It made one doubt what was real and question what was known. It complicated the hell out of life."

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Friday, April 29, 2016

Monday, April 25, 2016

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Best Hope — The Shawshank Redemption


“hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)
The Shawshank Redemption

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Rebelling Unhappiness — Madeleine Hunter


“If you could not change things, if you could not win, rebelling only led to more unhappiness."

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The King's Distant Subjects— James Alexander Thom


“Their King was two thousand miles away in London Town and surely gave no more thought to these distant subjects of his than they gave to him. If he was at war with France, how could it affect them here in this valley His Majesty had never even heard of?"

James Alexander Thom
Follow the River

Monday, April 18, 2016

Childbearing feelings — James Alexander Thom


“a woman´s feelings are at their most unsettled, their most skittish, when she is full of the humors of childbearing."

James Alexander Thom
Follow the River

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Thinking about Wife — James Alexander Thom


“I wonder if most men pass as much time as I do with their heads full of their wives"

James Alexander Thom
Follow the River

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Falling in love — Laura Hardy


[about falling in love] she remembered that excited, elated feeling of discovery, the sudden sense that the world had taken on a new dimension."

Laura Hardy
Dark Fantasy

Friday, April 15, 2016

Be Somebody — Verda Colvin


“Care about your future. Be somebody. Anybody can be nothing. It doesn’t take anything to be nothing."

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Acting Profession — Laura Hardy


“Her profession [being an actress] was so erratic and chancy; however successful you seemed to be, you could never be certain of getting work."

Laura Hardy
Dark Fantasy

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Romance is an invention — Madeleine Hunter


“Romance is an invention of poets. It is a drama devised to make men’s base needs more acceptable to women."

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Monday, April 11, 2016

Uncertain Future — Madeleine Hunter


“A woman facing an uncertain future, a woman seeing her family in dire need, will consider anything."

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Saturday, April 09, 2016

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Monday, April 04, 2016

Helping the Soul — Madeleine Hunter


HAYDEN         See to your own soul. I do not need your help with mine.
CHRISTIAN         We all need help.

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Sunday, April 03, 2016

Business fail — Madeleine Hunter


”Men fail in business all the time. It’s like a joust. A man enters the tournament knowing he might forfeit his horse. Ruin is always a danger.”

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction

Saturday, April 02, 2016

Friday, April 01, 2016

Bad News — Madeleine Hunter


“Bad news alters the world at once. It changes the air. A human heart knows grief is coming as surely as a horse senses an approaching storm."

Madeleine Hunter
The Rules of Seduction