Mackenzie Brown > Mackenzie's Quotes

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron

“And what do we do when we reach the cover of the trees?" He asked, wanting to roar at the top of his lungs how hopeless this was, yet he reigned himself in and remembered how the child had impressed him when they’d first met.
"We wait." She answered simply and smiled at him again.”
― Mackenzie Brown The Book Of Souls

“In a way I loved Sean from the day I first laid eyes on him. It wasn't instantaneous mind you, it didn't hit me like a thunderbolt and when you get to know me better, you'll know that I'm never likely to go all goggle eyed and weak at the knees. No it was more like a serum that had been injected into my bloodstream. The point of the needle so small, I didn't even feel it break my skin, but it was there all the same”
― Mackenzie Brown Lost Boys”
― Mackenzie Brown

“Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”
― Anna Bayes

“The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.”
― Eugène Ionesco

“People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.”
― Anna Bayes

“I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear”
― Charleston Parker, One Soul, Many Faces: Revealing the Hidden Truth

“One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.”
― Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World

“Sleepless nights?

Either you are in love or you are on a mission. For some.... it's the same.”
― Shikha Kaul

“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“Gloomy room
immersed in a scent
of modern cowards
filled with
shapeless creatures
sitting in silence
because they have
nothing to say

Fake plastic faces
with a grimace
of disappointment
painted on them

Are we stuck on hold
expecting our turn
in a waiting room
of so-called
lost generation?”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon