David Alan Royster

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

I don’t understand how in my parents’ age, it was ’til death do us part, and in mine it’s ’til cheating do us part, ’til lying do us part, ’til chemistry do us part, ’til disagreements do us part, ’til boredom do us part, ’til cowardice do us part. I just want what my parents have, that part.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

I’m a wanderess, I’m a one night stand. Don’t belong to no city, don’t belong to no man.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Love can be hard. Love requires you to be kind when you are angry, patient when you feel anxious, compassionate when you judge others, caring when you feel apathetic, trust when you’ve been wronged, let go when you want to hold on, know that the other person is you, take risks when you’re scared, to always see the lesson and never look back once you’ve decided. – Jackson Kiddard

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

When she laughed she was beautiful, when she cried she was beautiful, but, when she was determined she was sexy as hell.

Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I stopped believing in love at first sight. I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard, you need a little bit more.

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I know you’re dying to meet me, but I can just tell you this. Baby, as soon as you meet me, you’ll wish that you never did.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.