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  • #1
    Brian Andreas
    “Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over. ”
    Brian Andreas

  • #2
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #3
    Caroline Knapp
    “I once heard a woman who'd lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue, and without the dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give us, dogs can introduce us to several colors, with names like wildness and nurturance and trust and joy.”
    Caroline Knapp
    tags: dog, memior

  • #4
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “None of those things should have mattered, but I guess they did. I guess they were like water. Soft and harmless until enough time went by. Then all of a sudden you found yourself with the Grand Canyon on your hands.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come 'round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you've just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    "more”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Respond to every call
    that excites your spirit.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    Rumi

  • #15
    You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
    “You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Lang Leav
    “When words run dry,
    he does not try,
    nor do I.

    We are on par.

    He just is,
    I just am
    and we just are”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #17
    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #18
    Warsan Shire
    “It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #19
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  • #20
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  • #21
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  • #22
    Tish Thawer
    “We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.”
    Tish Thawer, The Witches of BlackBrook

  • #23
    Amanda Oaks
    “I am tracing the knobs of your spine like the map of my favorite continent. You are all the places that I haven't visited yet and I mark each one off with my teeth.”
    Amanda Oaks, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

  • #24
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    Warsan Shire
    “i don't know when love became elusive
    what i know, is that no one i know has it
    my fathers arms around my mothers neck
    fruit too ripe to eat, a door half way open
    when your name is a just a hand i can never hold
    everything i have ever believed in, becomes magic.

    i think of lovers as trees, growing to and
    from one another searching for the same light,
    my mothers laughter in a dark room,
    a photograph greying under my touch,
    this is all i know how to do, carry loss around until
    i begin to resemble every bad memory,
    every terrible fear,
    every nightmare anyone has ever had.

    i ask did you ever love me?
    you say of course, of course so quickly
    that you sound like someone else
    i ask are you made of steel? are you made of iron?
    you cry on the phone, my stomach hurts

    i let you leave, i need someone who knows how to stay.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #27
    Warsan Shire
    “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #29
    “I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am.”
    Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

  • #30
    “Big Bang, Shooting Star, Blazing Fire If this is darkness, then I will be the light. I will be the crashing supernova. If this is darkness, I will howl at it until the moon awakens. Until the stars roar back. Until the sun and the seas and everything in between scream to burn the skeletons away. I know there is ugliness hiding within the light. I know the monsters beneath my bed won’t disappear with the dawn. But it is enough to see them, wretched little beasts, to look them straight in the eyes and say, I will not run from my sins. I am more than my ghosts. I am better than the dark parts of me.”
    Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light



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