What She Gathers, She Easily Scatters

Sacrifice to them means loss in a world telling us we can have it all. But I believe true sacrifice is victory, because it requires our free will to give-up something or someone you love for something or someone you love more than your self. I won’t lie to you, it’s a gamble, sacrfice won’t take away the pain of loss, but it wins the battle against bitterness. The bitterness that dims the light on all that is of true value in our lives.

i don’t want to draw lines of exact
angles, lengths and curves anymore

hindi ko kelangan ang angle of inclination
sa pag-tuhog ng pishbol sa stick

hindi na ginagamitan ang paglagay ng isaw sa stick
ng french curve para maging exact ang
kurba ng kinakain mong isaw

hindi mo na kelangan ng compass
para maging perfect circle nga ang pizza mo

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2007

Casey: I’m with Max. He’s perfect. He loves me and I love him. He gave up grad school for me. Why can’t you find someone who’s perfect for you?

Cappie: Because no other girl in the world compares to you. Kinda hard to believe right?

Casey: It’s old habit

Cappie: Old habit? Like having great time with each other? Knowing each other better than we know ourselves? What does that tell you?

Casey: Well I guess it tells me that we can’t be friends

Miss Elizabeth, I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you.. I had to see you. I have fight against my better judgement, my family’s expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstances. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony

Cecilia Tallis: What was in the version I was meant to read?
Robbie Turner: Don’t know… it was more formal, and less…
Cecilia Tallis: Anatomical?
Robbie Turner: Yes.

Angelique had cursed me to be a vampire, so that my suffering would never end.

Anna Karenina: If you have any thought for me you will give me back my peace 

Count Vronsky: There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

As the moon kindles the night
As the wind kindles the fire
As the rain fills every ocean
And the Sun the Earth
So your heart will kindle my heart

My most remembered scene from the movie “Little Princess” (1995)

I used to watch this over and over again when I was a kid. Watching this now feels sooo..

Right after my father died, I’d come up here a lot. I had imagined the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with extra parts you know, they always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to here for some reason too.