Marisa Crane

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

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

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.

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.

I’m just a broken person looking for other broken people who may have gotten shards of me stuck in their feet and aren’t too concerned about pulling them out.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

We teach people how to treat us.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!