What I Keep

Some of my favorite quotes

(pulled from movies, songs, books, songs, poems, songs or songs)

"I'm sugar for sugar, salt for salt: if you don't like me, it's your own damn fault."
-  Gem of the Ocean, August Wilson

Someday without you  
All I can do  
Is get me past the ghost of you
Wave goodbye to me  
I won't say I'm sorry 
I'll be alright  
Once I find the other side of... someday
- Gonna Get Over You, Sara Bareilles


What covert is to ache
is what aching is me
for the arms of a man who knows who I am
and where I need to be
- Naked to the Eye by Mary Chapin Carpenter


What if we never got back on the plane
As summer turned colder and then warmer again
Losing all track of the passing of years
Till it no longer mattered how long we'd been here

- What If We Went to Italy, Mary Chapin Carpenter

It's always your favorite sins
that do you in.
You and tequila make me crazy.
- You and Tequila, Kenny Chesney

"When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you' - ye'll ken it was because I didna have time."
- The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon

Would you catch a couple thousand fireflies
put 'em in a lamp to light my world?
- All Your Life, The Band Perry

I never was
the pretty girl in school.
I never was
fast, tough and cool.
All I was
all my life it seems,
was hard to love
and harder now to keep.
- I Have a Need for Solitude, Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm not a historian: I'm going to give you my impression, which comes largely from novels, and may not be entirely accurate.
- Annabel Davis-Goff

Baby, why don't you go put your best dress on?
Those high heeled shoes you love to lose
as soon as the tunes come on.
On second thought, just the way you are
is already drivin' me crazy,
so baby, why don't we just dance?

- Why Don't We Just Dance?, Josh Turner

Like classics play aces

stay with me, go places

- Go Places, The New Pornographers

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.

- Villette, Charlotte Bronte

She had loved without being asked to love, - a natural, sometime inevitable chance, but big with misery.

- Shirley, Charlotte Bronte

He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank in from hers.
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd.
We aint too pretty, we aint too proud,
we might be laughing a bit too loud
but that never hurt no one.
- Only the Good Die Young, Billy Joel

I'm a country lineman 
on a high line, on a high line 
so will be my grandson 
there are powerlines in our bloodlines 
and if you don't love me let me go 
and if you don't love me let me go 
- Engine Driver, The Decemberists

"Do you love me?"
"A little... madly... not at all."
I concluded that she did not love me.
- The Wild Ass's Skin, Honore de Balzac