Todd Crawshaw > Quotes

“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

“Maybe death is just another dimension of life.”
― Todd Crawshaw, The Center's Edge Revisited

“Not all gifts are wrapped in a box. Some gifts are just being present. Being there when it matters.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Portrait of a Rainbow as a Young Man:

“Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

“I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.”
― Todd Crawshaw, heretofore

“Once you learn to listen and hear the notes clearly, then you will see the rainbow.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Portrait of a Rainbow as a Young Man:

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting and considered novel.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

“We are all Believers (searching) for meaning,
and Sexual (with desire) for a reason,
and Crazy (by degrees) for Love”
― Todd Crawshaw, God, Sex & Psychosis

“Consume life before it spoils.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr

“I pray for a Merry Christmas. This is a time to remind us of the love we should be giving all year long.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Portrait of a Rainbow as a Young Man: aka Doberman's Angel

“The truth? How does that work?”
― Todd Crawshaw, God, Sex & Psychosis

“When blue skies turn green from lies
spoken repeatedly to propagandize
and politicize, then thoughts unwise turn
poisonous, warping what one doth sees,
thus rotting the mind’s ability to reason
and discern the truth from the disease.”
― Todd Crawshaw, AMULET: A Play

“I love you more than I hate you.”
― Todd Crawshaw, The Center's Edge Revisited

“If our bodies didn’t come equipped with these erogenous zones, these areas of ecstatic pleasure, we might not have the desire, nor the attraction, to engage in these intimate acts. Acts of carnal knowledge.”
― Todd Crawshaw, God, Sex & Psychosis

“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So why should a creature of higher intelligence expect to do better? Humans were on the verge of being replaced by their hybrid creations. How intelligent was that?”
― Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr

“Let your tears fall on the seeds of sorrow for tomorrow love shall bloom.”
― todd crawshaw

“Terrified, yes. But I run toward the fire now. Not away.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr

“Each moment is now. Reality amounts to flickering lapses in time, as infinite layers of now. And with this constant motion we think of ourselves as being at rest. When in actuality we are zooming through space.”
― Todd Crawshaw, heretofore

“You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.”
― Todd Crawshaw, heretofore

“Fast can be good. Except when moving so fast and getting so far ahead of ourselves we no longer can recognize our mode of transportation or the wall we’ve hit prior to creating it.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr

“One day we wake from sleep to wander through this tale of dreams with wings fluttering lighter than love free.”
― Todd Crawshaw

“Enveloped in a cloudy protective haze, she arrived transformed on stage, taking flight – a butterfly, beautifully unaware of her time on earth.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

“A waitress wearing a transparent amber dress came up to the bar. She sauntered toward him and paused to stare into his face. She surprised him by leaning close and kissing his lips. She then backed away and slapped him moderately hard.
Slater half-laughed. “What the hell was that for?”
“To know the sound of one hand clapping.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr

“Everything was changing. Nothing remained the same. Space had expanded, yet merely rearranged. Time was stretching far too fast and waiting now to snap. If found there is no answer, can the quest be taken back?”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems