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  • #1
    Angel M.B. Chadwick
    “If you live on regrets, you'll be living a parasitic life.”
    Angel M.B. Chadwick, Corridors of My Mind

  • #2
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

  • #3
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “when your little girl
    asks you if she’s pretty
    your heart will drop like a wineglass
    on the hardwood floor
    part of you will want to say
    of course you are, don’t ever question it
    and the other part
    the part that is clawing at
    you
    will want to grab her by her shoulders
    look straight into the wells of
    her eyes until they echo back to you
    and say
    you do not have to be if you don’t want to
    it is not your job
    both will feel right
    one will feel better
    she will only understand the first
    when she wants to cut her hair off
    or wear her brother’s clothes
    you will feel the words in your
    mouth like marbles
    you do not have to be pretty if you don’t want to
    it is not your job”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #4
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “I mean, I hope you're happy,
    But the sky is still the sky without you,
    And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
    Caitlyn Siehl
    tags: love

  • #5
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Don't you do that.
    Don't you look at what I had for you and call it weak.
    Not when you were the one afraid of it.
    I stood there with my hands open,
    my mouth bruised tender with supplication.
    Don't you dare treat me like a victim of my own emotions,
    like being moved to my knees by love
    was a mistake that I regret.
    I will go to my grave with the memory of the bravery in my bones.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #6
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “My mother tells me
    that when I meet someone I like,
    I have to ask them three questions:

    1. what are you afraid of?
    2. do you like dogs?
    3. what do you do when it rains?

    of those three, she says the first one is the most important.
    “They gotta be scared of something, baby. Everybody is. If they aren’t afraid of anything, then they don’t believe in anything, either.”I asked you what you were afraid of.
    “spiders, mostly. being alone. little children, like, the ones who just learned how to push a kid over on the playground. oh and space. holy shit, space.”
    I asked you if you liked dogs.
    “I have three.”
    I asked you what you do when it rains.
    “sleep, mostly. sometimes I sit at the window and watch the rain droplets race. I make a shelter out of plastic in my backyard for all the stray animals; leave them food and a place to sleep.”
    he smiled like he knew.
    like his mom told him the same
    thing.
    “how about you?”

    me?
    I’m scared of everything.
    of the hole in the o-zone layer,
    of the lady next door who never
    smiles at her dog,
    and especially of all the secrets
    the government must be breaking
    it’s back trying to keep from us.
    I love dogs so much, you have no idea.
    I sleep when it rains.
    I want to tell everyone I love them.
    I want to find every stray animal and bring them home.
    I want to wake up in your hair
    and make you shitty coffee
    and kiss your neck
    and draw silly stick figures of us.
    I never want to ask anyone else
    these questions
    ever again.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #7
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “eat, baby.
    eat.
    chew.
    please.
    I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good.
    please.
    I know your hunger is different than mine.
    I know it doesn’t taste the same as mine.
    imagine you could grow up all over again
    and pinpoint the millisecond that you started
    counting calories like casualties of war,
    mourning each one like it had a family.
    would you?
    sometimes I wonder that.
    sometimes I wonder if you would go back
    and watch yourself reappear and disappear right in front of your own eyes.
    and I love you so much.
    I am going to hold your little hand through the night.
    just please eat. just a little.
    you wrote a poem once,
    about a city of walking skeletons.
    the teacher called home because you
    told her you wished it could be like that
    here.
    let me tell you something about bones, baby.
    they are not warm or soft.
    the wind whistles through them like they are
    holes in a tree.
    and they break, too. they break right in half.
    they bruise and splinter like wood.
    are you hungry?
    I know. I know how much you hate that question.
    I will find another way to ask it, someday.
    please.
    the voices.
    I know they are all yelling at you to stretch yourself thinner.
    l hear them counting, always counting.
    I wish I had been there when the world made you
    snap yourself in half.
    I would have told you that your body is not a war-zone,
    that, sometimes,
    it is okay to leave your plate empty.”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #8
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “They all tell you not to fight fire with fire,
    but that is only because they are afraid of your flames.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #9
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When the boys come with the intention of hurting you,
    my advice will always stay the same, my darling:
    Give 'em hell.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #10
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
    Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
    Girl, walk away from him when he raises his hand.
    There is no place that can handle you,
    but you must go anyway, to the hills, the mountains, the cities.
    They'll call you monster, and they'll be so right.
    Girl, show them.
    Girl, run your hands along the wound and seal it with your heat.
    Cauterize.
    They thought they could get to you.
    They thought they could take you and make you small.
    There may be bruises, but you are no little thing.
    Girl, show them your claws.
    Show them your wings.
    Rise.
    Show them your army of injuries who have come to fight.
    Show them the others like you.
    Take over the city. Own the mountains.
    Bite the hand and the one behind their back with all the good stuff.
    Girl, show your teeth.
    Never forget what you can do with them.”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #11
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When the boys yell after you like hyenas, you yell back, baby.
    I will not teach you to be afraid of your anger
    so that you look for it in others.
    I will not make you be the better person,
    because you already are.
    You wanna fight 'em? Fight 'em.
    Don't you dare apologize for the fierce love
    you have for yourself
    and the lengths you go to preserve it.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #12
    “Regression lives on, not because of the unavailability of a better option but because of the inertia and fear of change. A known devil is NOT better than an unknown one because there is a fifty percent chance that unknown may not be a devil at all.”
    EverSkeptic

  • #13
    Richard Bach
    “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #14
    Avijeet Das
    “You have got very sad eyes" she told me.
    And I just smiled.”
    Avijeet Das

  • #15
    Richard  Adams
    “Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?”
    Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

  • #16
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: words

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “My Dear,
    Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
    -Falsely yours”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #19
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #20
    Frank Zappa
    “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #22
    Frank Zappa
    “Information is not knowledge.
    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is THE BEST.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
    Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book



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