“What?” -Cary
” [Enraptured sigh, slow batting of eyelashes] Nothing.” -Audrey
– Charade
Ever since I was little, I’ve been intrigued with the idea of falling in love, and that little fire of intrigue has not lost it’s flame as I’ve grown into womanhood. Indeed, it’s probably only burned more keenly. I think the underlying cause for this fascination lies in the sheer fact that I’ve never truly been in love. Not the kind that I’ve imagined about anyway. I love my parents, I love my sibs, I love cameos, I love Pepsi, and I’ve definitely been in incomplete-and-emotionally-draining-like with various people, but I’ve never, ever had the penetrating kind of romance that I’ve imagined about. So all I have to go off of are the resplendent enrapturations of others who have experienced what I’ve only devotedly wondered about- whether in music, or movies, or literature. {DISCLAIMER: I am WELL aware that all the aforementioned musings about love are merely contrived and artful attestions to appeal to the part within all of us that relishes in such- which is why we go see chick flicks in the first place… Anyway.} So, in the abysmal bleakness that is this season (Dear Utah, I hate you. Love, B.), I have nothing better to do than eat (another thing that I four-letter-word) and blog about stuff that I know nothing about. In all my endless hours of filmage, reading, and hours and hours and hours of audiologically drinking-in my iTunes, I have compiled countless quotes about that little thing called Love that all describe, to some extent, why it is truly “all we need” (to quote them Beatles). In essence, each of these “testimonials” have played a part in constructing my admittedly whimsical ideal of what it means to be in love. I thought about categorizing them, since I’m an organize-aholic, and came up with the following categories:
-Submission to the throws of love
-Exquisite happiness
-Relinquishing of sensicalities
-The willingly possessed, belonging to one another
– Forever kind of love, eachother’s beginning and end… aka On and on and on kinda love
But then I decided to forgo the categorization of something that really is probably very uncategorizable. So here they are. Try your best to fight off the nausea and if at all possible, refrain from the compelling desire to roll your eyes. For however ridiculous and impossible and whimsical these ideas may be, you can’t deny that deep down, you wish they were true.
– erika jong
-vincent Van gogh
(He had his heartbroken time after time… And he STILL had the balls to give it away again and again.)
– the killers
-coldplay
riot in the heart and nothing to be done come ruin or rapture. Love as there has never been in a play. I will have love …”
-shakespeare in love
“I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.”
-carrie bradshaw
Every dream inside my soul
… Kiss me
On that midnight street,
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain’t this life so sweet.”
-david gray
-mr. darcy
-eliza bennett
“A woman should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
-rhett butler
–Pride and Prejudice
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere…
they’re in each other all along.“
–rumi
-my girl, anne shirley
“I love you every way there is to love a man.“
-nancy turner
“You got somethin’ I want plenty of.“
-Bob Dylan
–The Age of Innocence
-vincent Van gogh
“Love is a portion of the soul itself.”
“The only way to know ourselves is to go too far.”
– Jason Cruz
-etta james
-rickie lee jones
-Nina Simone
“‘Sometimes’ is never quite enough.”
– alanis morissette
“Did you walk for the fear of love? Or, don’t you believe enough? Well I’ll cover us both- you can leave that to me.”
-imogen heap
“She is loveliness itself.“
-mr. knightley
– moonriver
“Oh but if I had the stars from the darkest night, and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I’d forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’.”
-Bob Dylan
(No, I don’t speak the French. Howev, I am so intoxicated by this song, “Ne Me Quitte Pas”, which, in English means, “Do Not Leave Me”, that I Google translated the lyrics and this verse of the song was particularly lovely. It says something like, ‘I will cover your body in gold and light… blah blah blah… Love is King and you are the Queen… Do not leave me.’ Enchanting, right?)
“I believe in kissing- kissing a lot.“
-Audrey Hepburn
Peace and L-O-V-E.
becoming brittany 
Hello miss Britt. I had no idea that you have a blog! I love it!!!! I'm missin' you guys soooooooo much. It felt like home spending a day with you. I went to St. George Sweet tooth and ate cupcakes all the way home. That rootbeer float — to die for. But I have to say, my favorite is the key lime. Can't stop thinking about it. Send me an email with your address, I have something for you. crystalbeutler@msn.com
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