( one )
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray. The built you a temple and locked you away, but they never told you the price that you pay for things that you might have done. 
( Only the Good Die Young | Billy Joel )



( two )
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. 
( Birds of America by Lorrie Moore )



( three )
I just met you, I swear I read your thoughts. So don't forget me or what you want. 
( Plans | Birds of Tokyo )



( four )
I don't even want to be rich. I just want to be alone. 
( Master of Reality by John Darnielle )



( five )
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. 
( The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas )



( six )
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them. 
( Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates )



( seven )
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next - if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions - you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. 
You'd never dare to. 
( The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood )



( eight )
Dreams come from the past, not the future. Dreams shouldn't control you - you should control them. 
( Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami )



( nine )
The drops of rain they fall all over. This awkward silence makes me crazy. The glow inside burns light upon her. I'll try to kiss you if you let me. 
( Down | Blink-182 )



( ten )
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. 
( Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning )