Tyler Kent White

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.

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

One day I will kiss you, kiss you with lips that understand, kiss you with lips that can better explain, that can speak in so many languages. They will know how to say I love you in ways you have never heard, in ways that sound unlike anything any other man has mouthed before, false promises and fairy tales they did not ever believe in. One day I will kiss you, pressed words between your lips. I will kiss you and they will rattle between your teeth, run down your throat, and fill your lungs. They will echo against your ribs, they will reverberate through your limbs, they will dress every corner you’ve kept sadness hidden away until all that grows inside of you is the understanding that you are enough. One day I will tell you all about my paper napkin theories, algorithms I formed that demonstrate how the sum of all that you are, is greater than infinity, but to me you have always been the one.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

I think I always feel like if everything went to shit, I would just teach improv at a theatre.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.