S.P. Wayne > S.P.'s Quotes

“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.”
― Shane Koyczan

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss

“But I know when you go to old houses, the doorways are much smaller, ’cause people were shorter then, so maybe cocks were smaller too. It makes me glad I wasn’t born a few centuries ago.”
― J.L. Merrow, Muscling Through

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“You may
blame Aphrodite

soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy”
― Sappho

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois