Theresa

I'd like to meet:

"a true and loving friend who drives away all cares."

    Favorite Quotes
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.
~Jack Kerouac
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero,
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
~Robertson Davies
For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
~Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
~Jo Godwin
Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
~Edward Abbey
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
~J.D. Salinger
Many ,many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now . Happily some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them-if you want to . Just as someday if you have something to offer , someone will learn something from you . And it isn't education . It's history . It's poetry.
~J.D. Salinger
FIRE AND ICE
by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

    My Poems

I bared my soul
(well, maybe just a peek)
It was more than I should have
I feel exposed
naked

I thought it would be easy. . .
I let someone into my life
behind the walls
I trusted them
told them my dreams
my secrets

I thought it would be easy. . .
I got the razor
out of the drawer
I saw what I had become
reflected in the coolness of the blade
I put it to my wrist

I thought it would be easy. . .
I was wrong.

Perhaps I respond to quickly
My answers are not thought out
research need be done

I will stay inside and not speak
If knowledge is the key
then I am forever locked inside

I am floating
on a River of Ignorance
Waiting
For a message in a bottle

    MY FAMILY ROCKS!

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