Verse Novels Quotes

“Lidské tělo
naprogramuješ na všechno.”
― Nikki Finn, Outsider

“There are more guys than girls in jazz.
Next-to-no lady trumpeters
(oh, there are a few)
but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy
Miles Davis.
He made this famous album in 1959
called Kind of Blue
which is kind of, always,
how I feel.

That album gets into your bones
goes and goes
starts, hesitates, reaches out, feels
for the music, the sound, the thing you want to change.
Always grasping for the unattainable makes you
kind of excited,
kind of sorry.”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“Every life is its own story-
not without a share of glory,
and not without a share of grief.
I lived like a hero at seventeen.
At nineteen, I die like a thief.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.”
― Elayna Mae Darcy, Still the Stars