Marisa Crane

Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day – farther and wider – and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without misgiving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.