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  • #1
    Kamand Kojouri
    “Because at night
    when others are sleeping,
    I drown myself
    in poetry.”
    Kamand Kojouri

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    Poppy Z. Brite

  • #4
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #5
    Mindy Kaling
    “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #6
    Homer
    “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
    Homer, The Odyssey

  • #7
    David Benioff
    “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

  • #8
    Rudy Francisco
    “Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #9
    Rudy Francisco
    “I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #10
    Rudy Francisco
    “I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #11
    Rudy Francisco
    “I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #12
    Rudy Francisco
    “The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground”
    Rudy Francisco, Helium

  • #13
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #14
    Rudy Francisco
    “My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors

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

  • #15
    Rudy Francisco
    “Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Rudy Francisco
    “perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely,
    that when others see us
    they know exactly how it should be done.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #18
    Rudy Francisco
    “Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    Rudy Francisco
    “I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #21
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #22
    Rudy Francisco
    “Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”
    Rudy Francisco, Helium

  • #23
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #24
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #25
    Rudy Francisco
    “Loving you
    was the last thing
    I felt really good at.”
    Rudy Francisco, Helium

  • #26
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #27
    Rudy Francisco
    “Youth promises us immortality, but doesn't have the means to uphold its end of the bargain.”
    Rudy Francisco, Helium

  • #28
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #29
    Rudy Francisco
    “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

  • #30
    Rudy Francisco
    “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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