absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life, golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks, that this union soured before it started.

the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.

I wonder what freezesthe flurry of hurt on her cold-flushed cheeks, if his touch isa salve or the shattering.

God, is there no faith left?He has not told. I would not know Him if I saw Him.

we have forgotten what night tastes like, salted by full moon silver rupturingthe dark. we have forgotten how the skin sings when the lunar fervor unfurls across its follicles.

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.)

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Such things happen.

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market