Marisa Crane

I’m just a broken person looking for other broken people who may have gotten shards of me stuck in their feet and aren’t too concerned about pulling them out.

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

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

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

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

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.