Likea QUOTES

1 " He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Likea fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart." I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. " It's alwaysunwise to shoot the man you're in love with. "

2 " Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams. "

― Richard Brautigan , Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

3 " This week
in live current
events: your eyes.

All power can be
dangerous:
Direct

or alternating,
you, socket to me.
Plugged in and the grid

is humming,
this electricity,
molecule-deep desire:

particular friction, a charge
strong enough to stop
a heart

or start it
again; volt, re-volt--
I shudder, I stutter, I start

to life. I've got my ion
you, copper-top,
so watch how you

conduct yourself.
Here's today's
newsflash: a battery of rolling

blackouts in California, sudden,
like lightning kisses:
sudden, whitehot

darkness and you're
here, fumbling for
that small switch

with an urgent surge
strong enough to kill
lesser machines.

Static makes hair raise,
makes things cling,
makes things rise like

a gathering storm
charging outside
our darkened house

and here I am:
tempest, pouring out
mouthfulls

of tsunami on the ground,
I've got that rain-soaked kite,
that drenched key.

You know what it's for,
circuit-breaker, you know
how to kiss until it's hertz. "

― Daphne Gottlieb , Why Things Burn

4 " With the long list of supposedly health-endangering
meals on our menus, ‘starving’ seems like
a healthy option to have on our list of safe-to-eat meals. "

― Uche Mac-Auley

5 " Teach me how to love you so goodour hearts will be beatingthunderouslyagainst our ribcagesstraining to get out.For so long I have only knownhow to hurt.There are scars on my body likeconstellations. The one on my hip was from when I was sixand I learned my parents were the Titanic and the iceberg.My wrist has a faint bruisereminding me of when I gave myselfto a boy who crashed and burnedand took me down with him.Heartbreak sounds a lot likea slamming door.Show me it doesn’t have to be this way,I want to be proven wrong.Teach me how to love right. "

6 " If you Surrender to temptation thenweak is your soul, for you like grassthat alows the wind to be its " controlfreak" . A strong soul knows what itwants and adheres to its principles likea tree that stands still despite thecondition. "

7 " What is salvation without faith? is like
a Christmas tree without a star, is like
a kingdom without a king, is like
a heart without a beat, is like
a light switch that just won't turn on. "

― Anthony Liccione

8 " I traded in my
freedom for
a needy, whiny
and defiant
four-year-old,
a junky girlfriend,
and a relationship
riddled with
someone else’s
problems

Now, I stare
out of open
windows like
a wild mustang
craving open
fields

I clench my
crotch, where
my balls
used to be,
and I hum a
loathsome tune,
like an out-
of-work castrato
who’s realized his
dreams of someday
having his own family
are gone "

― Phil Volatile , Crushed Black Velvet

9 " Talent without enthusiasm is like
a Ferrari without fuel. "

― Riina Rinkineva aka. Sebastyne Young

10 " Since Drake told me that day in the wooded lot,
while the leaves agreed with gravity and left the trees,
that he liked boys instead of girls, it's been easier
to love him. Loving him feels like counting or using
the phone or something else that's effortless. I'm like
a leaf with nothing to do but fall. "

― Karen Finneyfrock , The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door

11 " And where colours like
A rainbow dance alive, as
Wisdom’s arrows rain down
And ages come to pass. "

― Marie Symeou