Manic Pixie Dream Girl/Quotes

""She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain! She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain, like a bullet to your brain! (Come on!)""

- Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca"

"I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."

- Clementine Kruczynski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"(Elijah) appreciated (Jesse's) cheerfulness particularly. His own sardonic view of life needed the antidote. But Jesse never seemed to mind his long grave face.

"Oh, goodness," she said, "what if you do look like an awful lemon? I know you're not really, and I guess if you were always grinning away like I do, we'd just explode when we got together. You stay the way you are, Lije, and keep me from floating away."

And she kept Lije Baley from sinking down."

- Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

"She runs through the night As if nobody cares She screams and she cries And ignores all the stares She wants me to come But I'm never going there"

- Guided By Voices, "Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory"

""I was feeling lower than low--hopeless-and suddenly a miracle happened... This girl--she wasn't in the office more than a coupla minutes--tipped me off on this job--and I got it. She was a blonde, pretty, about five-foot-six, big brown eyes--""

- Dr. Kitchell, not the only man in Bells Are Ringing to whom Ella Peterson happened

"''Like a shooting star he shines. He said, "Take my hand, "Live while you can "Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand?"''"

- Vanessa Carlton, "Ordinary Day"

"Oh boy, do you ever get bored Getting all you want and more What you need is someone like you Who's gonna blow your pretty world in two I watch you play around But that don't bother me 'm not in a rush cos I can see That a boy like you Needs a crazy girl like me."

- S Club 7, "Boy Like You"

"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind."

- Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne"