“saying we have not become strangers by the distance does as much good as saying apartment four is empty.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“maybe love is realizing that you can live without somebody, but you’d prefer not to. maybe it isn’t that i love you less, but that i’ve finally figured out how to love you better.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com
“I never asked for our hearts to be perpendicular. I would have gladly settled for parallel.”— Brianna Pastor, wnq-writers.com
“Hello, Stranger you haunt my moonlit Odyssey I wish I could call you by name.”— Leigh Cuen, leighcuen.tumblr.com
“Somewhere inside me, there still lives a little girl who once tried to invent a time machine, just to go back in time to save Vincent Van Gogh from his sadness.”— Nikita Gill, instagram.com
“here’s to being your own therapist and still needing a therapist, here’s to the stories you keep to yourself”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I pretend I don’t hear when someone calls my name from across the room. I swear it won’t happen again and then swear when it happens again.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“I wrote you into a song and then vowed never to sing.”— Yena Sharma Purmasir, fly-underground.tumblr.com
“It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“Leave the man who breaks your wings and uses them as crutches just so he can learn to fly.”— Shahida Arabi, shopcatalog.com
“i am thankful for having known such sugar. i have a dream and you’re there, but barely.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com
“To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia. In public. You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they're going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed.”— Amir Sulaiman, youtube.com
“When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.”— Kameelah Janan Rasheed, wellandoftenpress.com
“See what time and distance does to us? How it makes us soft and forgetful?”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig, purely for the fact that they get lonely.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“Just as your heart has been replaced by what happens to a bunch of seagulls when a dog comes running down the beach.”— Patricia Lockwood, tinhouse.com
“I wish there was a way to know if somebody was worth your time before you undressed your insecurities for them.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com