Marisa Crane

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.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

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

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

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The disciplined are free.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Love truth, but pardon error.