Novel In Verse Quotes

“I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.”
― Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

“And as she recites Scripture words tumble out of my mouth too, all of the poems and stanzas I've memorized spill out, getting louder and louder, all out of order, until I'm yelling at the top of my lungs, heaving the words like weapons from my chest...”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life.
It has brought me the most light.
And isn't that what a poem is?
A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I feel like someone
has thrown a stone
into the heavens
and smashed the stars.

We are falling
from the sky.”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

“But I'll tell you right now, when the blood inside of a stranger is inside you, you want to know who he is.”
― Danna Smith, The Complete Book of Aspen

“Genes are born knowing. Some of us have to learn the hard way.”
― Danna Smith, The Complete Book of Aspen

“The kiss lasts
for his lifetime
and my unfolding one.
It reaches lives
we haven't lived yet,
and all the ones
we've forgotten.”
― R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

“What does the sky do
when the moon is gone
forever?”
― Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

“The longer I stay
in this schoolhouse,
the longer I live in this town,
the more space
I take up
and the less
I feel I belong.”
― Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

“Like the day I was captured,
I want to raise my arms,
show this woman and this girl
my empty hands.
p. 49”
― Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

“If I didn’t think too hard
or ask too many questions,
it was easy.
p. 63”
― Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard