Ichise Texhnolyze Quotes & Sayings

April 11, 2004
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date and I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book.
11:54 p.m.
Jim — Jim Beaver

Who does not see that Paul descends from a general to a particular adoption, in order to teach us, that not all who occupy a place in the Church are to be accounted as true members of the Church? — John Calvin

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. — William Shakespeare

Weird, lonely people need each other. So — Matthew Quick

In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft. — Mark Waid

It will get better but grief will always accompany us, in one way or another...but it is important that we embrace the grief as you would a close friend, because another aspect of our grief is love. — Louise Suzanne Boyd

I hope to return. I'll do so if I'm not killed. Probably will anyway. — Brandon Sanderson

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness — Armistead Maupin

It wasn't a basic need, like a need for water
when I'm thirsty or a need for food when I'm
hungry. It was an insatiable need for relief. Relief
from the want and desire that had been pent up for
so long.
I never realized how powerful desire could be.
It consumes every part of you, enhancing your
senses by a million. When you're in the moment, it
enhances your sense of sight, and all you can do is
focus on the person in front of you. — Colleen Hoover

OrI just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more that I can't help thinking that if I'd never been born in the first place, I wouldn't be facing those sixty-seven nights, I wouldn't be right here, right now, having just endured that conversation with her. — Gayle Forman

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right. — P. J. O'Rourke