David Alan Royster

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

There’s nothing more romantic than getting down in the dirt and plowing through the weeds, brambles, thickets, and dry land of life with someone just as willing by your side.

You first.’ The only way love works.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

If you can’t hurt with me, don’t flirt with me.

Provided that he only broke you into pieces, you still have it all, like a pizza in slices, every. bite, delicious. You may not feel whole, but you are no less because of a feeling.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.

We need to make love great again because black lives do matter, because all lives do matter.

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.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon – it’s time to cash in!

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

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.

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.

I’m standing in the ashes of who I used to be.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

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

What’s my hand without your heart to hold?