Sweetdark Quotes

“because we'll someday ache
for any regular sunday in june
where the sun was a sure
thing and breath tasted like warm
grass and there was not a single
indication the cosmos would one
day shut like your eyes, tight
with pleasure.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“i want to be your girl, in the same way you hold the glistening
body of mars in a telescope's lidless eye and say she belongs
to you; swivel the lens and she's gone in the dark, thirty
million miles away and blushing.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“chaos wants for no one but i was released, and for a time, survived.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“because we'll someday ache for any regular sunday in june”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“i don't mean to project, but i'm pretty sure we're the
only two people on this wretched planet who aren't on fire
so
why catch? it's so dangerous out there--
why go? we have everything you could ever need
in here.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“after the yellow hours offer their timid
ought-to's we invent a new twisted
collection of sounds that fold themselves
into the wooden nooks, different words
for the same shriek:
we were here, so far from death.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“pinned here, find recurring dreams, conspiracy theories, their answer when i asked them to take me to the worst day of their life and describe the color of the sky: sapphire paint and human hair and the rosetta stone. can i worship what's mine? this is the problem. i move onto folding moments into catacombs, as if there are any noble or artistic ways to display the curse of yearning.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark

“i want to make
something with only my mind
that glows well enough to warm
you.”
― Savannah Brown, Sweetdark