David Alan Royster

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

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.

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.

Lasting love and forgiveness are two sides of the same page.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

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 heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

It doesn’t matter if you have a valentine or not – just love yourself and be your own.

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.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I’m searching for something that I can’t reach.

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

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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.

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.

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

I miss the thought of a forever, you and me. But all you’re missing is my body.