J.R. Rogue > Quotes

“I only want you;

your lips &
your beautiful
sadness”
― J.R. Rogue, La Douleur Exquise

“I believe the sky is crying for
us & what we will never be.”
― J.R. Rogue, La Douleur Exquise

“there's a tether connecting us.
it moves under city streets &
mid-American fields;
from the tips of my toes
to your leaving heel.”
― J.R. Rogue, La Douleur Exquise

“I'm in love with a coward & a thief.”
― J.R. Rogue, La Douleur Exquise

“Oh, how dull life would be, if I only let myself have feelings that made sense to me.”
― J.R. Rogue

“my brief moment with you,
I shall never regret.”
― J.R. Rogue, La Douleur Exquise

“the problem with broken people pouring broken love into humans molded from their own flesh was you could see all of your lacking in their eyes.”
― J.R. Rogue, Kiss Me Like You Mean It

“I don’t know why women hate other women who are different from them so much. Maybe it was due to the fact that society was always training us to be carbon copies of one another. Girl-on-girl hate was ingrained in us when really, we needed to stick together.”
― J.R. Rogue, Kiss Me Like You Mean It

“just once
I would like to be
the poem

and not the poet.”
― J.R. Rogue

“Honest is the last thing we do anymore
& I wonder what our paper faces think
of each other. If they're in love with
each other the real you & me
can never seem to be.
I like the old me better than
the one I give you,
but she is too dirty for you.
Too real.”
― J.R. Rogue, Exits, Desires, and Slow Fires

“I often caught him reading
the ink in my skin.
I had chosen each piece carefully.
The poetry of every romantic I would
never be able to touch.
I wanted to tell him
that they would never
compare to the way
his own made me feel.”
― J.R. Rogue, Exits, Desires, and Slow Fires

“How many men have I loved? Some briefly, some all-consuming. Some for a night, some for a second on a busy street.”
― J.R. Rogue, Kiss Me Like You Mean It

“If I'm being honest I spend
most early Saturday mornings
writing about the way you're going
to leave me.”
― J.R. Rogue, Exits, Desires, and Slow Fires

“let's bottle laughter. take it to the corners of the world. where we live, where we carry each other. we don't tear one another down, we tear down walls to love one another.”
― J.R. Rogue, Poems for the Moon: Vol 1

“You hold this darkness deep inside your ribcage. I know how that feels. I have it too. It isn’t the same as yours, I know that, but your darkness is fucking blinding, Sera. It’s beautiful and it’s a part of you. Use it.”
― J.R. Rogue, Burning Muses

“just share a map dot with me, someday.”
― J.R. Rogue, Poems for the Moon: Vol 1

“Let it out. Write about it again. Show it to everyone. Show it to no one. But please, don’t let it sit in there anymore.” He took his hand from my face and placed it over my heart.”
― J.R. Rogue, Burning Muses

“always be touching
her,
even when your hands
cannot reach
her”
― J.R. Rogue

“there's a softness I own that I take out every so often. I pull it from my pocket, when guard is let down & safety is in my vision. I have it in my palm again, for you & you alone. take it.”
― J.R. Rogue, Poems for the Moon: Vol 1

“Our real last time has come & gone.
It wasn't bittersweet.
Instead it was laughter.
It was laughter because we
thought we had more time.”
― J.R. Rogue, Exits, Desires, and Slow Fires

“Leaning over a sink to put your makeup on is no way to live, Dear,” she would say. “Just like your writing, it’s an art. It shouldn’t be rushed. You want to take a seat and stay awhile.”
― J.R. Rogue, Burning Muses

“I will love you in our next one.”
― J.R. Rogue, Poems for the Moon: Vol 1

“who are we these days? fragments— fortunate on the surface, rotting inside. I think I like my rash decisions. lose focus on this massacre long enough to cover the bodies, long enough to cover us up with the only bandaid I know, & you will see who I am. we are much sadder in poem form. we are much more palatable in person.”
― J.R. Rogue, This Witch: Poems

“whispering promises that I would do no less, than survive this. & all the days hereafter.”
― J.R. Rogue, Poems for the Moon: Vol 1

“we are much sadder in poem form. we are much more palatable in person.”
― J.R. Rogue, This Witch: Poems

“That's the problem with temptation,
it always leads you to me,
& I fiction the truth away.”
― J.R. Rogue, Exits, Desires, and Slow Fires