Kelsey > Kelsey's Quotes

“Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed.”
― Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“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

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”
― Kevis Hendrickson

“Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
― Pico Iyer

“Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”
― Dejan Stojnaovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams,I have to be content with my own imagination—which is almost as good. I can picture all those things perfectly.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“For a split second, his finger touches my skin, and he might as well have brushed me with a lit match.”
― Lauren Henderson, Flirting in Italian

“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”
― Mark Strand

“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
― Mark Strand, Selected poems

“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”
― Mark Strand

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”
― Charles Simic

“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
― Charles Simic

“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The soul should always stand ajar.”
― Emily Dickinson