Poetry Book Quotes

“there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some just live
silently
in the heart

crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die

and are reborn
when you smile again.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my back.

I wonder if you still think about us,
the way I do.

How our legs would crash
into each other in the middle
of the night, and how we ended
up creating the moon in the
confines of our beds.”
― Zaeema J. Hussain, The Sky Is Purple

“How sweetly delirious are the tinkling and trilling of mirth that draw to their sounds the friendliest hearts.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, A Heart Made of Tissue Paper

“The weight of my grief in the depth of sorrows rivals the bliss of our love at the height of past joys.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, A Heart Made of Tissue Paper

“There are more books than can be read, more friends than can be made, more laughs than can be chortled, and no time to waste.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, A Heart Made of Tissue Paper

“And their shape and their hair and their eyes and their smell and their voice. That suddenly, these things can exist and you're not quite sure how they existed without you knowing about them before.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“Now you've gone too fast. Now, you've made me leave me behind.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“When I look up at night, all the constellations look like you.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“I know there was something before you. I just can't remember what it was.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“I will hold you so tightly and carefully when I see you again. Like crystal. Or an atom bomb.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“You constantly look for a sign and when it's given to you and you don't like the answer, you call it a coincidence there are no coincidences.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“Time never said 'best you enjoy yourself now because we're going somewhere else soon.' But that's what he meant.”
― Iain S Thomas

“If you don't think I'm important, you're a no one, not a someone. Because everyone is important to someone.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“The difference between a job and art is passion.”
― Iain S Thomas, I Wrote This for You: Please Listen

“I haven't met you. But I already felt like I was losing you.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I just wanted to feel a pulse to dance along to, some skin to touch, a warmth to embody...”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“My heart had cracks, it couldn't contain it all. Your love went past me and found a better home.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I wish you witnessed the stars in my eyes, the rhyme in my voice, my heart on my sleeve. I rarely wore it, but with you, I did. Shame you never saw it; shame you never will again.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I was a substitute: someone you talked to while you got over someone you met before we did. I was the transition, how to pass time as you moved from Point A to Point B.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“The thing is - you can end your life, but lives will carry on: babies will be born, flowers will still bloom, books will be written, song will be sung, the earth will complete its evolution. You're the one missing out, not them.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“You're a mess; but no one needs to know it. You're a mess, until the start of the week.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“You don't feel safe in yourself anymore.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I wish they didn't require us to acquire thick skin. I wish they told us to grow tender hearts instead, to let our tongues soften.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I wish we were raised to be kind, not cruel. Then we would be carefree, not careful.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“And to you who thought I have changed: the truth is, I didn't. I just learned how to speak instead of remaining silent. To not be afraid of expressing my thoughts when I used to be shamed for it. And most of all, I learned how to treat myself better, enough to expect others to meet me at that level.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I am somewhere between assuming someone out there is meant for me and preparing myself for the possibility: this person doesn't exist.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I eat alone in a room filled with groups of people talking and laughing loudly. I hog a table and shut these people out with my earphones and submerge myself into the world of fiction.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“Someone who could sit with me in silence without being afraid of what it all means.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here

“I imagine to love you the way I love my passions. I would examine your details and study you for hours.”
― Dawn Lanuza, You Are Here