sixteen.

"“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

"I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist"

"My favorite deep thought is:

After you die, it is believed that you have 7 minutes of brain activity left inside you, and in the 7 minutes you experience your entire life over, in a kind of dream… Because in a dream time is stretched. So if this is the case, what if right now you’re in that 7 minutes. How do you know if you’re alive or just reliving old memories."

"fuck me gently with a chainsaw, do I look like mother teresa?"

"Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. "

"I think I sound crazy right now. I probably do but I live in my own head so it all makes sense to me."

" Cherie Currie. Cherry bomb. Sex kitten. Brigitte Bardot in a trailer park. Joan Jett. The rock 'n' roll heart, street tough brunette. Sandy West. Miss California with a joint in her mouth and a chip on her shoulder. Lita Ford. The love child of Sofia Loren and Ritchie Blackmore. You do not wanna fuck with Lita. "

"If we cease to believe in love than why do we live?"

"As far as boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And, I know that people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but... I guess normalcy isn't really our style. "

"He reads her elation and stops from his feeding and, kissing her, turns round to look at her face light-headed, unthinking, she rises to kiss him and falls to the spell of vampiral embrace"

"If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories. "

"He said something that didn't mean as much then as it does now... He told me that things happen in life that you can't stop but it wasn't a reason to shut out the world..."

"A storm is coming, Frank says, a storm that will swallow the children, And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain, I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps, and send the monsters back to the underground, I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them, except for me, because I am Donnie Darko."

"In Heaven, there’s this woman in labor, howling in pain, and there’s a red dragon with seven heads, waiting so he can eat her baby. But, the Archangel Michael, he hurls the dragon down to Earth. From that moment on, the red dragon hates the woman, and declares war on her and all of her children. That’s us.” • ask away betchez