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  • #1
    J.D. Salinger
    “Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #13
    Walt Whitman
    “I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #14
    Walt Whitman
    “Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
    Be not afraid of my body.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #15
    Marquis de Sade
    “I want to be the victim of his errors.”
    Marquis de Sade

  • #16
    Marquis de Sade
    “Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
    marquis de sade

  • #17
    Marquis de Sade
    “In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
    Marquis de Sade

  • #18
    Marquis de Sade
    “What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
    Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

  • #19
    Marquis de Sade
    “My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.”
    Marquis de Sade, Juliette

  • #20
    John Keats
    “Touch has a memory.”
    John Keats

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #22
    Mae West
    “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”
    Mae West

  • #23
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #24
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #25
    Pablo Neruda
    “With a chaste heart
    With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
    Holding the leash of blood
    So that it might leap out and trace your outline
    Where you lie down in my Ode
    As in a land of forests or in surf
    In aromatic loam, or in sea music

    Beautiful nude
    Equally beautiful your feet
    Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
    Your ears, small shells
    Of the splendid American sea
    Your breasts of level plentitude
    Fulfilled by living light
    Your flying eyelids of wheat
    Revealing or enclosing
    The two deep countries of your eyes

    The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
    Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
    Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
    Burnished gold
    Fine alabaster
    To sink into the two grapes of your feet
    Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
    Flowering fire
    Open chandelier
    A swelling fruit
    Over the pact of sea and earth

    From what materials
    Agate?
    Quartz?
    Wheat?
    Did your body come together?
    Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
    The cleavage of one petal
    Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
    Until alone remained
    Astonished
    The fine and firm feminine form

    It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
    Yet suffocate itself
    So much is clarity
    Taking its leave of you
    As if you were on fire within

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #26
    Pablo Neruda
    “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
    Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
    Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
    I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #27
    Anaïs Nin
    “He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
    Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

  • #28
    Julie de Lespinasse
    “You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
    Julie de Lespinasse

  • #29
    Ann Brashares
    “Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”
    Ann Brashares

  • #30
    Gustave Flaubert
    “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary



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