Having Decided To Stay Quotes

“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay

“The ocean-blue bowl won’t
refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back
from the gaping earth-wounds.

There will still come
water, chill wind and happy
goosebumps,

and in the utmost corners of oaks,
leaves laughing.”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay

“Friend who has fired the kingfishers
and flamed the dragonflies –
they catch your light however they move
and beam it out of their eyes.”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay

“I scratch down happiness, I
want my ink to do happy dances,
to careen across the pages staggering
like a drunken fellow, giddy
on moonshine or sunset.”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay

“Never say savor when you only mean taste –
one is a holding on the tongue and an intoxication
and the other is cursory, a sampling, connoting
reluctance to bask. Never say a thing you don’t mean.”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay

“It is something to have gazed on the constellated white,
felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love.

It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous
in the only ways we know how.”
― Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay