223 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.”
“For a long while. Finally she says, I don't believe in love. Not sure it really exists, but even if it does for some people, it won't for me. She is serious. Then she lightens up. But, hey, if you ...”
“I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?”
“I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.”
“I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.”
“Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
“In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you ab...”
“Some peopleAre worthy of a bullet straightto the heart because that is wherecruelty evolves into evil.Somehumans aren't human at all,despite how they appear.Humanity is what lives insidepeople,harb...”
“I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”
“crawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump...thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remembe...”
“But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions”
“I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.”
“It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.”
“But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”
“I think its easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another”
“I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.”
“When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”
“Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.”
“I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?”
