SteamingOwl > SteamingOwl's Quotes

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

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
― Richard Siken

“Only after having met you did I rediscover that it's such a simple thing to be happy.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
― André Breton, Mad Love

“I mean, I hope you're happy,
But the sky is still the sky without you,
And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

“Stars are not small or gentle.
They are writhing and dying and burning.
They are not here to be pretty.
I am trying to learn from them.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

“You are still the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“both. i want to stay. i want to leave. i am three oceans away from my soul. – lost”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.

Mignonette smells of water
Love smells of apples
And now we know
Blood smells of blood.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova