Teach Me Quotes

“This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“My head is totally gone; there is nothing left but my heart.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“His voice is a chain pulling me back to Earth.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“Something inside my chest breaks loose and falls. It never stops falling.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm.
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“You have to believe in God to believe in trees.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing?”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“He’s kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me