Lit Kid Clippings

Quotations or interesting word links from shit I'm reading. A writer's reading journal; lines I wish I had written. - Colin Reed Moon -

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As a child I had so much energy I'd lie awake and feel my organs smolder.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - The Burn

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I imagine us talking somewhere safe, like the afterlife.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - Conversation

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the imaginary is what tends to become real, and when it does there is no paint black enough to cover it up.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - One Mistake

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Two bullets: one in front, one in back quickly speak. They tell the heart, No more beats.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - Two Bullets

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local high school boys made bold by youth and cruelty.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - Crank Calls

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Skin is soft; it takes what you do to it.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - Skin

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On Wednesday night, there had been the sound of a typewriter, the rattle of a mind in motion.

Maggie Nelson - Jane: A Murder - Law Quadrangle, Section C, Second Floor

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praise the man who had the good sense to build a front seat like a bed, who knew you'd never buy a car that big if you only meant to drive it.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Jubilee

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Come down to the water. Bring your snare drum, your hubcaps, the trash can lid. Bring every joyful noise you've held at bay so long.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Jubilee

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They saw a boy who held himself as the song played and have you ever thought you would give anything to get out of the four walls of your life?

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Fence

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Who are you to ask for succor in the face of so much beauty. Who are you to ask this world to remember.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Training Camp: Deer Lake, PA (pt. VII)

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All the windows of her mind blown out and the light pouring in so you can't tell the fire from the moon.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Rosary Catholic Church

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That's what faith was, something I couldn't see but felt all over.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Rosary Catholic Church

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Dance until your bones clatter. What a prize you are. What a lucky sack of stars.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - At Last the New Arriving

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Have you ever gotten hit or thrown against a wall? There's a sweetness to it, that moment when your God would forgive you anything.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Apocalyptic Swing - Boxers in the Key of M

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Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

Isabel Allende - Eva Luna

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. . . an austere dinner based on brown rice, which had been considered elegant ever since the macrobioticians and vegetarians had instilled fear and trembling in humankind with their dietary theories.

Isabel Allende - Eva Luna