Marisa Crane

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

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

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

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

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

They said eyes are the key to the soul, and after looking into yours, I know you’ve unlocked mine.

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

There are some sick people in this world.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.