“I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.”

“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”

“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been ...”

“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.”

“I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.”

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”

“Even that exquisite hunger he aroused at her, fiercely sweet as it might be, posed a threat to her sanity.”

“Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”

“A thousand lips, a thousand eyes,a thousand hearts will read these words,as you read them, graze them, this moment. Thousands will utter them into the abyss, someday, perhaps for years to come; lou...”

“The will of life and death, never share the same motivation...we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for...but lets not kid ourselves......we all know the ultimate motive to rise back ...”

“The spirit, my love,is stronger than laughter,stronger than the hungry pantingof reckless lionsthat paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of bowed trees,stronger than the pace of a dying heart, tha...”