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  • #1
    Kate   O'Neill
    “Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.”
    Kate O'Neill

  • #2
    Anna McPartlin
    “Only one person in the room didn't cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.”
    Anna McPartlin

  • #3
    Louise Murphy
    “The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.”
    Louise Murphy

  • #4
    Munia Khan
    “The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive”
    Munia Khan

  • #5
    Cheryl Strayed
    “God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.”
    Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    tags: gods

  • #6
    Kamala Suraiyya Das
    “At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna
    Loved her for the last time and left. . .

    That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt
    So dead that he asked, What is wrong,
    Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said,
    Not not at all, but thought, What is
    It to the corpse if the maggots nip?”
    Kamala Das, The Descendants

  • #7
    “She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.”
    Kat Rosenfield, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone

  • #8
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #9
    Nalini Singh
    “A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.”
    Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow

  • #10
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me.
    I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
    I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

  • #11
    Ryan Mecum
    “Blood is really warm,
    it's like drinking hot chocolate
    but with more screaming.”
    Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

  • #12
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
    with clean blood
    and organized drawers.
    I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
    at night when no one else is alive
    or awake
    however you choose to see it
    and I live in my own flames
    sometimes burning too bright and too wild
    to make things last
    or handle
    myself or anyone else
    and so I run.
    run run run
    far and wide
    until my bones ache and lungs split
    and it feels good.
    Hear that people? It feels good
    because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
    and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
    Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life.
    "I tried to stop her.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

  • #14
    Jandy Nelson
    “grief is a house
    where the chairs
    have forgotten how to hold us
    the mirrors how to reflect us
    the walls how to contain us

    grief is a house that disappears
    each time someone knocks at the door
    or rings the bell
    a house that blows into the air
    at the slightest gust
    that buries itself deep in the ground
    while everyone is sleeping

    grief is a house where no one can protect you
    where the younger sister
    will grow older than the older one
    where the doors
    no longer let you in
    or out”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #15
    Erica Jong
    “It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”
    Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

  • #16
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

    What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration?

    I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer.

    She lit the match.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

  • #17
    “And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.

    Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.

    Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.

    Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.

    Run, I said.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me



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