“If you’re not motivating me, praying for me, loving me, or trying to get money with me… You’re a distraction.”

— Ralph Smart

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“So you’re trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

“Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 3 (p. 36)

“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”

John Frusciante (1970) American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer

Untitled #3
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)

“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”

Tim Powers book Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

“A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Madonna Interview:Sunday Times Culture, The Times, 2009-09-20 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6836901.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1,

“You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"Love Me Little, Love Me Long". Compare: "Love me little, love me long", Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv; "Me love you long time", 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny" (sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket).
Hesperides (1648)

“If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

Cold Turkey (2004)

“All of my love — all of my kissin’
You don’t know what you’ve been a-missin’
Oh boy — when you’re with me — oh boy
The world will see that you were meant for me”

Buddy Holly (1936–1959) American singer-songwriter

Oh Boy!, written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, and Norman Petty
Song lyrics, The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)

“If you’re not motivating me, praying for me, loving me, or trying to get money with me… You’re a distraction.”

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