Quote I Love: Numb by Linkin Park

Here’s this week’s quote I love…

Sometimes when I’m writing I listen to music. Occasionally a song will remind me of a character I’m writing about. Then whenever I hear that song, I’m right back into the story, into the character’s head. I find myself listening to it over and over.

I’ve found several songs that really hit home when it came to my book More.

“Numb” by Linkin Park fits Luke in so many ways. Since More is releasing next week, I thought it was the perfect time to post some of the song’s lyrics for my quote of the week. There’s also a video below if you want to listen.

“I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
I don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes


Every step that I take is another mistake to you


All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

Can’t you see that you’re smothering me
Holding too tightly
Afraid to lose control
‘Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you

-Numb by Linkin Park

Hope you have a great day! Cheers,
Sloan Parker

Quote I Love: Life is like a box of crayons

Here’s this week’s quote I love…

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation…so when I meet someone who’s an 8-color type…I’m like, hey girl, magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no – I want magenta!”

– John Mayer (singer)

We should all have more colors in our lives.
Sloan Parker

Quote I Love: The Inconvenience of Being a Writer

Here’s this week’s quote I love from writer Victor J. Banis…

“…I can get those ideas anywhere and everywhere – sometimes at the most inconvenient times. I have actually been making whoopee with someone and had this killer bit of dialogue slip into my head. Talk about losing your focus!”

Victor J. Banis (author)
From Rick Reed’s blog series Why I Write

Almost spit my OJ on the keyboard with that one. Thanks for sharing, Victor.

The Breakfast Club, still has something to say

Once a week I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else). So here is this week’s For the Love of…

I watched the Breakfast Club earlier this week. Love that movie, even after all these years. Takes me right back to my high school days.

I like stories where people who would normally never be friends or have feelings for each other move past their differences and find common ground, find something special they didn’t even know they were looking for. Of course all that teen angst bonding them together doesn’t hurt.

My current writing project has a lot to do with finding a commonality where you least expect it, so maybe I’m influenced by that right now. It’s on my mind a lot, that’s for sure.

In any case, I did enjoy watching The Breakfast Club, and today I thought I’d share some of my favorite lines from the film…

John Bender: “Sweets. You couldn’t ignore me if you tried.”

Bender: “You load up, you party…”
Brian: “Well, no, we get dressed up, I mean, but we don’t, we don’t get high.”

Bender: “Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.”

Bender: “You won’t accept a guy’s tongue in your mouth, and you’re gonna eat that?”

Allison: “I’m not a nymphomaniac. I’m a compulsive liar.”

Brian: “Bender, did you know without trigonometry, there’d be no engineering?”
Bender: “Without lamps, there’d be no light.”

Vernon: “False alarms are really funny, aren’t they. What if your home, what if your family . . . what if your dope was on fire?”
John Bender: “Impossible, sir. It’s in Johnson’s underwear.”

Brian: “Chicks cannot hold dey smoke – dat’s what it is!”

Allison: “Your middle name is Ralph, as in puke, your birth date’s March 12th, you’re 5’9 and a half, you weigh 130 pounds and your social security number is 049380913.”
Andrew: “Wow. Are you psychic?”
Allison: “No.”
Brian: “Well, would you mind telling me how you know all this about me?”
Allison: “I stole your wallet.”

Brian Johnson: “Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.”

“And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds; are immune to your consultations, they are quite aware of what they are going through.” -David Bowie

Any others you liked?

Once a week I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else). So here is this week’s For the Love of…

Quotes I Love: Love and Passion

Once a week I post a quote I love. It may be related to writing, inspiration, lgbt issues, my own life, or anything else that interests me. So here’s this week’s Quote I Love…

I’ve been working on revisions for my current work-in-progress, Breathe. Part of the goal of this last round of edits was to increase the romantic tension and build up the emotion in every scene.

Focusing on the love and desire in my work puts me in a romantic mood, so today I’m sharing some of my favorite quotes about love and passion.

Hope you enjoy these.

“And sometimes when we touch
The honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides”
— Dan Hill

“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
— Ralph Block

“We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly while embracing each other.”
— Lucian de Croszonza

“We lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open and
all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.”
— Marge Piercy

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle

“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I’m with you.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
— Henry Ward Beecher

“Where there is smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s you, there’s desire.”
— Unknown

“Passion… it can hurt so much sometimes, we can hardly stand it. Without passion, maybe we could all have some sort of peace in this life… but then, we’d be hollow. Without passion, we would be dead.”
— Unknown

Aren’t they lovely? Hope you enjoyed them.

Sloan Parker