“Make love to me in Spanish. Not with that other tongue. I want you juntito a mi, tender like the language crooned to babies. I want to be that lullabied, mi bien querido, that loved.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“you have had love, and that means your sternum is a divining rod for both passion and grief. because the tongue is the body’s strongest muscle, make it say joy. make it say I am a factory of splendid things. make it say the octopus is the smartest animal in the animal kingdom, and I am an octopus. I…”— Marty McConnell, martyoutloud.com
“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
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, you hair messy, and your eyes sparkling”— Shanti, goodreads.com
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”— J. D. Salinger, genius.com
“You lost her and it wasn't because she was hard to hold, or love, or touch but because she was made of your absence, of all the things you ignored and all the beautiful poetry you read but failed to understand”— Robert Drake, amazon.com
“I always thought seeing a person’s soul was a metaphor, but I have seen all the way in, to what we are made of. And it is so beautiful. Your soul encircled mine And mine yours… I will never forget the feeling.”— Just Jack (as this is a matter of the heart), conspiringecho.tumblr.com
“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“. . . prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“The question you should be asking isn't, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.”— Carrie Hope Fletcher, amazon.com
“It shouldn’t be about getting famous. It shouldn’t be about the size of your following. It should be about the way in which you connect with people in the world around you. It’s about finding what you’re truly passionate about, and letting that guide you. Fame is fleeting. But if you’re really lucky…”— Justine Ezarik, amazon.com
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. How many of us with our big salaries are actually secure anyway?”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget you birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com