Elizabeth Scott > Elizabeth's Quotes

“The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.”
― Miklos Radnoti, Clouded Sky

“You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw”
― Mary Jo Bang

“However tortured the rationalizations we prefer, the thirst of one human being for another can be so--humbling--but I preferred to think of it as fate. And then mad desire. Anything but a fortress built on the back of a whim...How much easier to say there is no coincidence, and certainly no mistakes, and carry on to our destruction in defense of...how shall I put it? My idea of myself. One will sacrifice anything for that.”
― Laura Dietz, In the Tenth House

“Try to be thoughtful,
don't make the poor man say it;
see how human he is,
he has children of his own,
it is your job to ask:
Is she dead?

And he will nod and say yes
And now he can never not nod.
And now he can never say no.
And now he can never not say
yes.”
― Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Slamming Open the Door

“Save me, O you who love me; love me bravely.”
― Miklos Radnoti, Clouded Sky

“And when I stand
in the receiving line
like Jackie Kennedy
without the pillbox hat,
if Jackie were fat
and had taken enough Klonopin
to still an ox,


and you whisper
I think of you
every day,
don't finish with
because I've been going
to Weight Watchers
on Tuesdays and wonder
if you want to go too.”
― Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Slamming Open the Door

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope