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“Because at night
when others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#2

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#3

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

tags: insomnia, night, sleep

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#4

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: forgetting, lover, oblivion, opiate, sleep

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#5

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: humour, sleep, waking-up

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#6

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: 11-379, sleep

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#7

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

tags: insomnia, sleep

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#8

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

tags: readers, reading, writers, writing

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#9

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

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#10

“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#11

“I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#12

“The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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#13

“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”
― Rudy Francisco

tags: rudy-francisco

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#14

“My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors

And trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following”
― Rudy Francisco

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#15

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

tags: constellation, telescope

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#16

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

tags: creativity, loss

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#17

“perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely,
that when others see us
they know exactly how it should be done.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#18

“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#19

“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

tags: poetry

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#20

“I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#21

“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.”
― Rudy Francisco

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#22

“Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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#23

“I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.”
― Rudy Francisco, No Gravity

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#24

“When you choose to be a poet,
you become a place that people walk through
and then leave when they are ready”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

tags: poetry

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#25

“Loving you
was the last thing
I felt really good at.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

tags: love, skills, talent

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#26

“My hobbies include: editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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#27

“Youth promises us immortality, but doesn't have the means to uphold its end of the bargain.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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#28

“Let's sing loudly,
offbeat and out of tune.
Let the world know
we don't care how it sounds
because the only key we need
is already in the ignition.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

tags: life, music

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#29

“They now know solitude does not scare people like us and our absence is something that we are not afraid to give to those who call for it.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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#30

“I wonder how long it will take the planet to tell us we can’t live here and the locks are changed.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

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