“But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: She's Come Undone
“But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
Variant: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
“I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker whose head I split open.”
Mark Wahlberg (1971) American actor, television producer and rap musician
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
" To Anthea, st. 5 http://www.bartleby.com/106/96.html". <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)
Margaret Way (1900) Australian romance fiction writer
Source: Genni's Dilemma
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Under the Cherry Moon
Song lyrics, Parade Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
“With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Creation, st. 10.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
“Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Source: We Were Liars