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Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
Eliza, stop crying, You let sorrow take over you; you will drown in it
Twilight whippoorwill ... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness
Once upon a midnight dreary
What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that - oh, that was thirty years ago.
Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.
heavy, sullen girl with a face as blunt and expressionless as a knee,
I'm in the depths of despair! (Anne of Green Gables)
This girl. In love with the boy she can't have. Grieving the death of her father, only to find out she's about to grieve the death of the only adult left in her life? This girl who's being told she can't keep the only family member she has left?
My Maggie, mia amore, I love you. I want to live with you, grow old, and have bambinos with you. You wrecked me. Completely ... You belong with me.
Eliza, my pancreas.
Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
The wonderful life!
It's a wonderful life if you can find it.
ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Men have died from time to time, and words have eaten them, but not for love.
Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.
When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a while and been removed ...
...misery had her dwelling in my heart...
Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.
How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don't leave me.
I loved Lucille Ball growing up.
'My Fair Lady' will never get old for me.
(Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins.
Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths - until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.
Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at.
Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.
Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.
Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.
Even a trashy movie can make you cry. There were deep emotional reactions that ducked the censure of the higher reasoning processes and forced us to enact, however vestigially, our roles - me, the indignant secret lover revealed; Clarissa the woman cruelly betrayed.
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.
The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!
No more tears, Rose. I'm here. I'll protect you."
"I thought you were mad at me."
"Don't be silly. How could I be mad at you?" - Morgan McCaw & Rose Frost
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
Wanda
She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says Guess who!
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
Juliette," I whisper. "My name is Juliette.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda
Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved.
The elder Miss Larkin
Mousy. It was the only word Travis could think to describe Mary Warner when she stepped off the plane. His heart sank and took a moment to rally itself. Long legs, that was all he'd asked for, and what did he get? Minnie Mouse.
I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.
You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"
"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"
"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.
Louisa, is your life always like this?
A town loved with bitter love.
Flowerlike, I loved nothing.
from "Mayday on Holderness
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
MOM - Mistress Of Miracles
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter
I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)
But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could chose anyone in this world to love, it'd be you.
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
Grumpy is her favorite dwarf.
gin daisy, which
Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims ... Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was.
Jessica, who loves stories,
For a few seconds, I thought I might actually cry. That was so unlike me, I wasn't sure how to respond. Bronwyn Alessia St. Vincent Clare didn't get sad. She got mad. Or better, she got even.
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.
I'll never forgive you for what you did to me. You cheated me, you've driven me out of my home and now I'm in a no-man's-land but good - there's no place for me any more in Maycomb, and I'll never be entirely at home anywhere else. Her
Lincoln felt a surge of something like strength. He set down Harold and Maude, surreptitiously, and picked up something else, Hairspray.
Miss? Miss Phryne? Are you all right?' 'Come in, Dot. I'm fine. Some son of unmarried parents just tried to kidnap me.' 'What did you do with the body, Miss?
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
Lady Shelby loves no one but herself. And even those feelings come with conditions.
She once was heaven and now she's the hell I'm burning in.
Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye
And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away.
You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.
Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.
Unyielding - Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see - she has a former husband very jealous of her - he is her "ex" but he is
... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
Mary Poppins," he cried, "you'll never leave us, will you?
Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
And never be sorry
thought Lois
and never be sorry
The lonely? Where's that from?
Sadness' best friend. Sadness brought
it along and I couldn't turn it away, so
I let it multiply in my pulse instead.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed
Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.
It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest.
And me. I was the main ingredient.
There comes a time in life when everything you have know, tolerated and loved is suddenly shattered, all you can do is breathe Maureen Momm