Marisa Crane

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

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

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

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Give, even if you only have little.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.