All Things Quoted

[thequoted]

“I know things about true love and ghosts, but I don’t know the thing I’ve wanted to know most. I know there are feelings that survive death, but can they all? What if only the bitterest and most selfish are strong enough? That would explain a lot, wouldn’t it? I’ll expect I’ll know sometime. I don’t think it will be long now.”

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[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Lurlene McDaniel, from “Breathless.”

[beartnie]

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

[lifeinpoetry]

“I am an expert in absence.”

— Nicola Maye Golberg, from “Trazodone,” Juliet and the Knife

[weltenwellen]

Erika L. Sánchez, from “La Cueva”, Lessons on Expulsion

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

“I desire violently, and I wait.”

— Anais Nin

[lifeinpoetry]

“There is no word for “gentle” on this tongue”

— Kanika Lawton, from “Year of the Pig,” published in Longleaf Review

[love]

[weltenwellen]

I think that people can be better than that, and I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

[metamorphesque]

― charles bukowski, raw with love

[luthienne]

“Something is missing from me. And I can’t. I can’t.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[bibliophilebunny]

“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”

— Robert Browning

[sunrisesongs]

Amrita Chakraborty

[lifeinpoetry]

“I’ve been trying to go home my whole life—”

— Chelsea Dingman, from “Psychogeography,” published in The Los Angeles Review

[weusedtobegiants]

strange, it's as if you walked so carefully through every heartbreak i pulled from broken glass and trembling lips, gathered up all the love i placed in fumbling hands, and brought it all back to me

Morgan Nikola-Wren, from Magic With Skin On

[thehopefulquotes]

“I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via perfeqt)

[minuty]

“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?”

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