Latest Quotes

“Tonight the stars burn ferociously against this midnight canvas. We lie beneath it all, naught but two ineloquent humans scrambling for answers. Our faces lost in shadow, our eyes dancing to the thrum of our heartbeats in the twilight.”

— Alison Malee, Shifting Bone

“Give yourself the freedom to make mistakes.”

— Alison Malee, Shifting Bone

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Sometimes it’s 9am on a tuesday morning and you’re standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop up And the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don’t know what to do with your hands.”

— Rosie Scanlan, On Missing Them

“So please, if you are the kind of person who is honest with the people you love without thinking of how hard the consequences may be on your heart, please don’t change that about yourself. Don’t allow your heart to be hardened into playing games just like everyone else. Don’t let the world fool you…”

— Nikita Gill, For Honest People Seeking Love In A World Afraid of Rejection

“Wouldn’t it be awful if we fell in love again?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Three Hours Between Planes

“How long do you plan to keep dancing with the ghosts of your past instead of letting them go?”

— Nikita Gill, Spilled Ink

“You have enough electricity inside you to power a 40 watt light bulb for 24 hours, so why aren’t the firefly like embers in your eyes glowing? Are you really going to allow a person to steal your ability to light up your own life?”

— Nikita Gill, Spilled Ink

“Stop loving people who will never know how to pronounce your name with the magic that it deserves.”

— Nikita Gill, Spilled Ink

“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the Earth’s hips And our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary. Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity Combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills Will leave us like a…”

— Andrea Gibson, How It Ends

“In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.”

— Andrea Gibson, Tumblr Poetry

“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’”

— Azra T., My Heart Is Full Of Open Windows

“The first thing that I do before I get into your house I'm gonna tear off all the petals from the rose that's in your mouth.”

— Victoria Legrand, Beyond Love

“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”

— Mia Hollow, Twitter

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.”

— Margaret Atwood, Good Bones

“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”

— Cristin O'Keefe, December

“I hope that if alternate universes exist, it will still be you and me in the end. I hope that there will always be an us. In every world, in every story.”

— Tina Tran, Let Us Always Find Each Other