Excerpts I'll Never Tell

The snippets of random quotes that keep me sane: an ongoing thread

" Let July be July, let August be August and let yourself just be even in uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything and you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things" - MHN

"Locked in a stalemate with a man who bars no holds. Rock and a hard place. He's battering control. What am I waiting for? Feet planted beneath, my compass, my transport."

"Cogito ergo sum"

"What if you succeeded because you expect to rather than expecting failure"

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone"

"I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them"

"When death takes my hand I will hold you with the other and promise to find you in every lifetime "

"And you love him. Tell me, if he handed you a bloodied hand, would you take it, because it was his?"

"Will you hold me like a coffee cup careful by the handle? Will you watch your feet as you climb those stairs so all that burns inside of me stays safely below the surface? Will you drop and watch me shatter if I burn your fingers as you waltz on through your days? Will you love me like that favorite mug, and wait for me to cool? Will you put your lips upon me and smile when all that burned inside of me pulls the sleep from your veins?"

"Moon dust in your lungs, stars in your eyes, you are a child of the cosmos, a ruler of the skies"

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"

"Come and let us live, my Dear, let us love and never fear. Then let amorous kisses dwell on our lips, begin and tell a thousand and a hundred, score, a hundred, and a thousand more."

"Blood of my blood. Bone of my bone. As long as we both live."

"We ate slowly, savoring each other as much as the meal before us. We began reminiscing about our life together those many years ago, then carefully filling in details of our time apart. We began to know each other again and discover whether we were, in fact, the same two who had once existed as one, and whether we might be one again. After we finished, the same thought was uppermost in both our minds. It could scarcely be otherwise."

"Watching the way your lips move to professionally articulate the words that so effortlessly come out of your mouth remind me that heaven doesn't only exist in the sky."

"Who knew we would blossom like this. That night you breathed life into me when you told me you loved me for the first time. In the spots that my heart broke you planted seeds that grew vines, taking every inch, filling every space, guarding the gate to my soul. Who knew are garden would become of us, one that would get watered every day without fail, no matter how much it rained the day before."

"And he looked at me like there was something worth looking at"

"Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too mediocre things in life; love shouldn't be one of them."

"She is a paradox. She is faithful and yet detached. She is committed and yet relaxed. She loves everyone, and yet no one. She is sociable but also a loner. She is gentle and yet tough. She is passionate but can also be platonic. In short, she is predictable in her unpredictability."

"As above, so below. As within, so without."

"My love is a journey starting at forever and ending at never."

"She walks the earth freely, yet her feet never touch the ground. Many hands will reach for her, but she cannot be anchored. She belongs to no one, to nothing, to nowhere. When you meet her, you will recognize her for who she is- a free spirit, a wandering star. She will fit in your arms like she was made to be there. And she will show you what it means to hold something you can never hold onto."

"It was long ago, yet you feel closer to me than yesterday, more hopeful than tomorrow. You are as far and near as memory. As distant as the sun - as close as its light on my skin."

"I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark."

"Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. There's a circle around the moon tonight. Sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still, sometimes, when the wind is warm, or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know. Maybe I had my happiness. I don't want to believe it, but there is only that moon."