“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.”— Anna Akhmatova, amazon.com
“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“And you became like coffee In the deliciousness And the bitterness And the addiction.”— Mahmoud Darwish, nizariat.tumblr.com
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”— Osho, oshonews.com
“Your heart will become a dusty piano in the basement of a church and she will play you when no one is looking. Now you understand why it’s called an organ.”— Rudy Francisco, fuckyeahrudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”— C. G. Jung, goodreads.com
“This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“You laughed like a metaphor I’ve been trying to write down for years.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“Her kisses reminded me of lemon slices drizzled with sticky honey. Bitter, sweet and strangely irresistible.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic.”— George Carlin, amazon.com