My whole career has been an act of revenge.
No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.
She liked the way he smelled - kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Will you stay with me ” she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder. . . . Forever ” he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.
Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair. . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.