and they don't always fall apart

Glory (to Willow): You know what they used to do to witches? Crucify 'em.
Buffy: They used to bow down to gods. Things change.
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Five, "Tough Love"

sick sad world

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

Humanity is so adaptable... Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

-Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

big legged woman ain't got no soul

If somewhere in the universe there was a Platonic ideal form for a band, a perfect band of which all others could only be a pale reflection, then it was Led Zeppelin.
-Martin Millar, Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me

while you're making other plans

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. In this diary we set out meaning to write one story, and write another. To turn back to the beginning is only to wonder and to be sad, but to compare the second half of the volume as it is with what we vowed to make it, is to be lashed with nettles.
-J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

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