#life

"I loved how your cheeks had a natural rouge, like a delicate rose, and I was a rogue full of thorns. I was only a flower when I was with you."

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

"Reflection Upon Reflection [10w] Don't look into a mirror in rooms full of mirrors."

"It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers"

"I don’t want to make love last, I want to make love second to last. The last thing we’ll do is cuddle."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."

"Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future."

"Dialogue Knowledge compromises its truthonce it ceases to be a dialogue."

"Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?"I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

"We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost."

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

"Getting Real about the Eel It's not that eel wants to avoid commitment.From the eel's point of view, it is a matter of survival.Who the fuck wants to be with an eel anyway,when there are plenty of less slippery fish."

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

"Hate Recycle Bin When you empty your hate recycle binit frees up more memory to write even better poetry.Just try it and tell me this isn't true!"

"You have the ability to choose your reactions."

"Creation "I shake my fist and there's bang.Stars sift like sand through my fingers;each swirl of my wrist a galaxy,every kiss imbued with a bit of me."

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."