371 quotes found
“i have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person.”
“A rain like melting pillows…a rain so beautifulI could neverhave let go ofif not certainthat someday...it would find its wayinto my poem.”
“But—I’m leaving.”Not without me.”
“we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.”
“let my heart always belike it is...this very momentready to explode...with lovea violent rainstorm...with no streamno ocean vast enoughto flow into.”
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly go...”
“i am permanentlytannedin the summer of poetry.”
“To be recipient to God’s love on earth is to share a deep, intrinsic need to love and be loved”
“Jeb is going to grow up to be the kind of man who spends his Saturdays teaching his little boy to ride a bike. (...) Charlie, on the other hand, will be off playing golf while his kid kills people ...”
“I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn’t matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest.”
“Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!”
“Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get," she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.”
“How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he could no longer offer her protection. Now that moment had come and gone- and so did Luce”
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”
“It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.”
“To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness…”
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.”
“...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.”
“I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.”
