“I have my freedom today because nothing really happened and nobody came to see me, only the slow growing of the garden in the summer heat and the silence of that unborn life making itself known at my desk my hands still dark with the crumbling soil as I write and watch the first lines of a new poem…”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, thebakerypoetry.com
“if you are broken and they have left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough they were not able to carry it.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”— Fortesa Latifi, amazon.com
“Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning... but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Sinclair Thomas, amazon.com
“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d g…”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Hers is a soul so scattered it could never be anything but what it was born to be.”— Eden Arielle Gordon, wordsdance.com
“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”— Lillian Shelton, helladopeprncs.tumblr.com
“Love is not a perfect match, it is the connection between two people. If it were as simple as pairing up people who are most alike, the work would be easy. We are not searching for our perfect partners, we are searching for the kind of unexplainable connection that defies logic and reason and timing…”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“The things we lose are not losses – they are entryways. They are second chances. They are wake up calls. They are the world saying to us clearly and sharply: there is something else out there. And when it most feels like we're standing on the edge of some unknown abyss, we must recognize that we fee…”— Brianna Wiest, soulanatomy.org
“So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, 'till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.”— Iain Sinclair Thomas, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think we could have gone on. All of us. Trying. Forever. But they didn't fill the desert with pyramids. They just built some. Some.”— Jennifer Michael Hecht, writersalmanac.publicradio.org
“I have been told that girls always fall for men like their fathers, but I found it a hard concept to grasp when he was always gone and I grew up on radio static and blackberry preserves.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“Let’s skip the pleasantries and obligated polite remarks. I want to know you... Tell me. I am not afraid of your ghosts.”— Myrtle Yvonne, germmagazine.com