"The gentle draw of bow across string reminds me far too much of breathing to try and do both."

"I want to write love poems so sweet that the ink on the paper attracts honey bees." Rudy Francisco

“Now she is taking her Macbook, and his Macbook, and her other Macbook, and her book on Macbooks..."

"You can’t go Nowhere and see the Grand Nothing if you stay in the nowhere that is your house."

"You are more than the sum of your mistakes.No matter how bad a day is, it’s allowed to start over."

"The air is a poor conductor now, and the ideas used to fall out of it." Neil Hilborn

"His pill bottle has a thin layer of dust on top." Neil Hilborn

"Oppie how'd you do it, I get lonely halfway between my house and Chicago, If I'm alone in a hotel"

"I probably smelled like I pay taxes, change my own oil and answer all questions with a story..."

"“You are a superhero with a cape made of water. All doors make all of us superheroes, but you..."

"Humans are just rocks that got squishy and learned how to think." Neil Hilborn

“The hard part, probably, is admitting that I really can’t handle it anymore.” Neil Hilborn

"I want to write love poems so sweet that the ink on the paper attracts honey bees." Rudy Francisco

"When Bruce Lee said, "be like water." You took that personally." Rudy Francisco

"The air is a poor conductor now, and the ideas used to fall out of it." Neil Hilborn

"My dog, who I love, who came to us from a house that tried and failed to love her, licks my ear."

“Words should have to be as big as the thing they describe.” Jared Singer

“Remember, you will survive, things could be worse, and we are never given anything we can’t..."

"There's a place where someone loves you both before and after they learn what you are that place.."

"It used to be a lighthouse, the light inside of it has gone out and it's haunted by the ghosts..."

"The doctor sends me home with a list of ways to care for myself & haven’t I always wished for..."

"I spent long enough fixing nothing so I could feel nothing, that now it's just mistakes all the..."

"I'm 22 and newly queer; my hair is still permed." Andrea Gibson

"Silence is my first language, and lonely is an accent that I still can't get rid of."

"I’d clear the snow off of twelve driveways in negative twenty-degree weather just so I could leave"

"Someone that will hold her hand like it's the only one they've ever seen." Rudy Francisco

“I don’t know much, but I do know this: Heaven is full of music, and God listens to my heartbeat..."

“How do I say the truth isn’t the right filter? The truth knows nothing of who you almost were.”

"The snow spreads its arms and yawns, the snow starts saying goodnight the moment it wakes."

"Why are you still in bed?" - Rudy Francisco

“But most of all, I’m sorry I believed these lies.” FreeQuency

“It feels like staring at the sun, hard; so when I look away it stays, printed in my mind..."

“A woman’s body is unapologetically powerful. She is so powerful she is often taught to be scared.."

“Your body will assume it has survived for another day, until the next trigger.” Patrick Roche

"I bet your God made Eve without a mouth and taught her how to spread her legs like a magazine..."

“You were afraid of the monster in your closet, and I was afraid it had already climbed into bed...

“But I was not raised to love everything that was the same. I was just raised to hate everything...

“Despite my best efforts, I am real.” Jamie Mortara

“Is this what inheritance feels like?” Jahman Hill

“I say Black Lives Matter, you say you don’t see color.” Natasha T. Miller

“Remember always the hipster creed: ‘Why be efficient when you could be inefficient?’” Neil Hilborn

“The first said: you must be a man, as much as you want it. Then offered a glass of water, which..."

“...Who I can only assume was Satan wearing the skin of a child.” Joseph Capehart

“Your neck is a whistling firework singing to the light of me. I am only amplifying sound.” Edwin

“i do not slice his tires. i do not burn the photos. i do not write the letter. i do not beg. i..."

“Yeah, you can call me, but I won’t tell you it’s okay. That I forgive you. I won’t say goodbye..."

“Her cooking is best, but the men in my mother’s life have never stayed for seconds.” Jenesis

I have heard that even in space Phil Kaye