“You and your words flooded my senses. Your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs. You built cathedrals.”— Phillipa Soo, play.spotify.com
“in the morning i’ll be ten feet tall solid gold not sorry for anything”— Nicola Maye Goldberg, electriccereal.com
“Love, as I watch you sleep, knowing the iron in the blood that keeps you alive was born from a hard star-death somewhere in the past that is also the future, and what I mean to say is that I am so lucky to be living with you in this brief moment of light before everything goes dark.”— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com
“Love, which we are traveling through at such an astonishing speed, entire galaxies racing past, universes, it is as if we are watching time itself drift into the cosmos, like a spinning wall of images already gone.”— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com
“But even in the dark, time would go on, bold in its black cloak, no shade, no shadow, only the onward motion of movement, which is what time, if it exists at all, really is”— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com
“The heavens call to you and revolve about you, / showing to you their eternal beauties; / and your eye is still gazing upon the earth.”— Dante, amazon.com
“The hands went along with the body wherever it went. They wept when the body wept, trembled each time the body fell silent with pleasure. Salt and regret left their mark on them. Babies and wineglasses were entrusted to them, since the hands were precise, and enigmatic. Were they light beacons, real…”— Kathryn Hunt, narrativemagazine.com
“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Once, someone told me I have a small heart. Whenever I weep I press the moment like a garlic clove— I want to feel, good God I want to feel, to see how everything alive becomes a landscape.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Write a poem. Then use Google Translator to translate the poem into either French or Italian.”— K. Stone, dumblittleman.com
“That day she put our heads together fate had her imagination about her.”— Robert Frost, internal.org
“I wonder if rain is scared of falling if it has trouble letting go if snow flakes get sick of being perfect all the time each one trying to be one-of-a-kind.”— Naima Penniman, amazon.com
“Nothing is quite as stunning as the heavy knuckled hand of a man who has spent his life beating demons into the ground.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“What if Time broke all the rules, just for us, and sacrificed herself in the waiting? Waiting for us to just look up and find our way home.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“What if Time, herself, had heard our story, came to know the pace of us, and not even she could stand to wait?”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com