Tyler Kent White

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.