Regina Johnson > Regina's Quotes

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”
― John Irving, My Movie Business: A Memoir

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“No woman on earth doesn’t give a fuck—no woman is that cool—she’s just hidden her fire. Likely, it’s burning her up.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“Life is hard—not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Any woman who doesn’t give a fuck is simply abandoning her soul to adhere to the rules. No woman on earth doesn’t give a fuck—no woman is that cool—she’s just hidden her fire. Likely, it’s burning her up.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Instead of asking
why they left,
now I ask,
what beauty will I create
in the space the no longer
occupy?”
― Rudy Francisco

“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Some say, don't burn your bridges.

I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,

and watch it
turn to ash.

There's always more than one way
to cross the water.”
― Rudy Francisco

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Half my life is an act of revision.”
― John Irving

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
― John Irving

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.”
― John Irving

“I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving

“If you truly love someone, your love sees past their humanness”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself