Lucky Wreck Quotes

“I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck

“I slip into bed and lie there beside
Your body like a buoy that the ocean resents.
If I could just grab hold and find a way to paddle,
If you could stop dragging your feet along the gravel.
As a child I remember knowing how to float
When sober was the wind and my body, the boat.
Now each step is anchored and you continue to drift
In the room where we pretend that we are alive,
Where you and I commit the sin, and you and I forgive.”
― Ada Limon, lucky wreck

“I'll never see you again, but that's a note I tear up in my mind.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck

“Sometimes I think the memory of an event is better than the event itself.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck: Poems

“You can’t really stop going places because you’re frightened.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck: Poems

“She decides God is no good, but he must exist,
he must exist so she can hold him accountable.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck

“She wants to go on
being an animal, not something that represents
something else, but the original object, the
thing before it is named, the fish before she
knew it was a fish, when it was just another
lost thing, individual and shadowy, working
its way toward its own end.”
― Ada Limon, Lucky Wreck