Am I headed for the same brick wall?
Is there anything I can do about anything at all?
Ani DiFranco - Fuel
(Well, it’s not my fault that song is so damn quoteworthy.)

‘This is going to be interesting’ is rarely followed by something good. Adventurous, maybe. Time-consuming, almost definitely. Mind-boggling, certainly.
Nice and easy, never.

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot - The Hollow Men

The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

I mean, seriously, Universe: What the hell?

Well I know you wish you were strong,
You wish you were never wrong,
Well I got some wishes of my own.
Sheryl Crow - Anything But Down

Everyone laughed, but in her heart was a little bird flutter of dread.
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

A typical conversation likely to happen on any given day in any given Starbuck’s:
Me: I’ll have a tall Caramel Machiatto, please.
Barista1: Okay…
Me: What do you want?
Andreas rambles on for about five minutes and all I can remember when he’s done is that he said fat-free at some point.
Me: Yeah. You’ll have to order that yourself.
It’s [...]

I realized that sometimes not doing something can be just as hard as doing something. I mean, not doing something requires exactly what it says: freaking not do it. Don’t get up. Don’t sit down. Don’t go. Don’t cry. Don’t look. Don’t write. Don’t say it, don’t fucking say it.
Yet, it’s amazingly hard.
But so far [...]

And don’t ever mention the stains that you left on my track
How from a beautiful girl I became someone ruined and wrecked
Keren Ann - In Your Back