Riley Flint

“Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject.”
― Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World

“Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

“Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay