FastSaying

Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
but she's still sleeping
this ICU is
hotel for the dead


Maggie Stiefvater

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Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,<...
ELLEN HOPKINS I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the ...
PAUL KLEE The real flight of this hawk is impending.

Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.<...
ARUNIMA SINHA Your heart beats between the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my leg...
CASEY RENEE KISER Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW When the world caves in
Still my hope will cling
To Your promise
Where my courage end...
HILLSONG O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize ...
WALT WHITMAN And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
MUSE And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

...
HAFEZ A BIRTHDAY

Something continues and I don't know what to call it
though the language...
W.S. MERWIN Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,<...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are wa...
SANOBER KHAN Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going...
SAMANTHA SCHUTZ He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
PATRICK NESS I’d rather be a heart,
keeping my body alive and well
although I tend to get lost someti...
HKL NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
DALAI LAMA XIV She touches me
The jungle lights up with incinerating fire
Looks like a flaming serpent HENRY ROLLINS Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Lay down
Your tired & weary head my friend.
We have wept too long
Night is fallin...
JOSé N. HARRIS Then she called Matthew.

He answered, "Where the fuck are you? I've been calling you for ...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my...
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN The Blue Bird
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI ENDURANCE

I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
SUZY KASSEM The word
was born in the blood,
grew in the dark body, beating,
and took flight through the...
PABLO NERUDA Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights...
KRIS KIDD I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured d...
HEINRICH HEINE In the hours waking,
when we're still all still,
and you can hear the floorboards creaking...
DAVE MATTHES 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON but nothing I ever gave was good for you;
it was like white bread to goldfish.
they cram a...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I...
THEODORE ROETHKE Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love ...
NOVALIS You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION You are fucked up
...

And still we are friends!?
DEYTH BANGER Life has pounded me down
and thrashed me around,
Time and time again,
But I always ge...
SUZY KASSEM Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER O captain! My Captain!
Our fearful trip is done.
The ship has weather'd every wrack
...
WALT WHITMAN Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the wei...
MARY OLIVER In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy, CURTIS TYRONE JONES Heartland
Now that we’ve given our hearts away
With the bric-a-brac, we want them...
LISEL MUELLER Silver bullets and a stake in the heart
But the cross still awakens my heart
I'm the freak...
CRISS JAMI Darkness my beloved home, I return!
I return, not whole, but damaged.

Fatigued by qu...
ZUBAIR AHSAN That is what abuse is:
knowing you are
going to get salt
but still hoping for sugar AMANDA LOVELACE Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.

It has been a beautiful
fi...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Scared, Cold, in pain,
the dust hasn't settled yet.
Pinned in, crying,
my clothes are ripp...
RALPH ALLEN But my heart is an old house
(the kind my mother
grew up in)
hell to heat and cool CLEMENTINE VON RADICS LET’S GO BACK HOME

I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY you deserve for
your heart to be heard-
because love lights a
fire in us all.
it...
ALEXANDRA ELLE But not the first Illusion, the new earth,
The march upon the solitary fire,
The casting of t...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song
THABO JIJANA ROCK STATE OF MIND

The lights go out
Darkness takes over my mind
I can see only...
EVY MICHAELS I’ll see you forever
For you are a part of me
And I myself a part of thee
Inseparable i...
DAVID SEVERY The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of...
ANNE SEXTON Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Free, I think. They're free.
(is this why she joined them?)
I feel so-
...
PATRICK NESS We'll Go No More A-roving

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the nigh...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I laughed as we turned in a tight circle... "Tonight you're all mine."

Jake smiled but lo...
KIERAN SCOTT Dear Samson,
I put your hair
in a jar
by the pear tree
near the well.
I bee...
CAROLE C. GREGORY This is one hell of a suicide note.

THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the de...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH WHO AM I?

I have seven heavenly panels
Leading up to a pointed sphere
I’m mul...
SUZY KASSEM GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smil...
ROBERT HERRICK I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI What avails love when life is so ephemeral?
What avaiIs a mortal’s love for the immortal?
<...
ALLAMA IQBAL BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BRAND
IS CONVINCING THE FULL BELLY
THAT IT IS STILL HUNGRY AND HAS ...
QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning

my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE In the baby’s room

The city lights are
Milky
In the curtains…
Breath ...
JOHN GEDDES Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY This is one of the more talented groups that we've had around here in a long time, since I've been h...
AHMED PLUMMER El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luc...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
DENISE LEVERTOV Many Castles

On
My
Travels
i have been
A guest in
Many cast...
SILENT LOTUS Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my h...
ALFRED TENNYSON Love is just Love.
It's self sustainable.
Togetherness however needs trust,
loyalty ...
DRISHTI BABLANI It’s funny because my life is full of this:

you think you’re escaping, until you run ...
CHANGDICTATOR A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart.
"Awwwww!" said...
JENNIFER ECHOLS In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
MARTINA MCBRIDE To an Isle in the Water

Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

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Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Vol...
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Your life, fearful and immense and blossomi...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love<...
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you're giving up your wings and inheriting my c...
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And thi...
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One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER ..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'
She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER What do you eat?"
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER The world needs more love at first sight.
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Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER