“Everybody Has A Secret World Inside Of Them. All Of The People Of The World, I Mean Everybody. No

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

“If I were consistent with what I now feel, I should bite my veins out, let them drip in every corner until I run dry.”

— poetry-siir ©

When Morticia Addams said, "Life’s not all lovely thorns and singing vultures, you know," and, "Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages."

“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”

— Sara Shepard, The Visibles

“I write to find out what I’m thinking.”

— Julia Alvarez

We may love with our hearts, but first we lust with our eyes.

‏stay up late with me and tell me everything that’s on your mind

“There are persons who honestly do not see the use of books in the home, either for information — have they not radio and even television? — or for decoration — is there not the wallpaper?”

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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer