so true it makes me sad

Never say or do anything that the person standing in front of you cannot understand.
-Arthur Rimbaud in I'm Not There

it's the nature of the species

Something always breaks up love affairs unless both parties are willing to compromise themselves.
-Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark

and the time between seemed like no more than the wave of a hand to the clear blue sky

In the end we all go smash to the floor.
-Stephen King, Duma Key

coulda woulda shoulda

The things "one might have done" are, in fact, the things one could not do.
-Colette, Julie De Carneilhan

now I have no choice but to eat you

Spiders bite, and a clockmaker can be useful.
Red Fly/Blue Bottle, Christina Campanella & Stephanie Fleischmann, at HERE

we can't keep falling forever, you know

But don't let us worry over such things... we can't help ourselves just now, you know, and I've always been told it's foolish to borrow trouble.
-Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

and also they babble

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
-Steven Pinker, NYT