Katja Millay quote: "I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m talking down a jumper. “I’m going to put my arms around you and I’m going to hold you,” I pause before taking the last step, “and you’re going to let me."

Te dicen que fue algo fortuito para que no te culpes. Pero lo único que oigo es a ellos diciéndome...
KATJA MILLAY

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreame...
KATJA MILLAY

My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.
KATJA MILLAY

People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still...
KATJA MILLAY

Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a g...
KATJA MILLAY

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifter...
KATJA MILLAY

Didn't you say she lives in Josh's neighborhood?” Mrs. Leighton asks. I think I actually hear her ...
KATJA MILLAY

What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question.
"Sunshine," I say, a...
KATJA MILLAY

I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what ...
KATJA MILLAY

I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do a...
KATJA MILLAY

Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.
KATJA MILLAY

Call me Sunshine again, and I will murder you, cocksucker.
KATJA MILLAY

I haven’t started counting yet. I wonder if it’s just me or if it’s like that for everybody; t...
KATJA MILLAY

I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am sti...
KATJA MILLAY

There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.
KATJA MILLAY

Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until ...
KATJA MILLAY

Everything in me turns on and shuts down at the same time. I am weak and strong. I am terrified and ...
KATJA MILLAY

It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second t...
KATJA MILLAY

The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake any...
KATJA MILLAY

Sugar has a very special, oversized place on my food pyramid.
KATJA MILLAY

You have no reason to trust me.' 'No, but I trust you anyway.
KATJA MILLAY

It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and the right way and follo...
KATJA MILLAY

I don't know how to regret it. Because that would mean to regret that I ever met her and I can't mak...
KATJA MILLAY

Some things you just have to learn to live with.
KATJA MILLAY

I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, or maybe not just okay, maybe even good, and...
KATJA MILLAY

You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven't done the things you wanted to do ...
KATJA MILLAY

Because it's good when you find one that does mean something. Makes all the empty ones worthwhile.
KATJA MILLAY

You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.
KATJA MILLAY

I haven't gotten better. I'm not even close to okay. The only thing I've done is to decide to get be...
KATJA MILLAY

Maybe nobody knows how. Sometimes it's easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that...
KATJA MILLAY

I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.
KATJA MILLAY

Good Morning, Sunshine!" Josh F**king Bennett. By now, I'm pretty sure that if I were to find his bi...
KATJA MILLAY

He's kissing me. And when he does, part of me is lost. But it's the part that's twisted and mangled ...
KATJA MILLAY

It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY

I don't know how to say it - after all this time, I'm not even sure that I can - but I have to break...
KATJA MILLAY

You know I meant it. I am human. And male. And not remotely blind. Do you want me to say it again? Y...
KATJA MILLAY

Josh isn’t in love with me and I’m not in love with him.”
“Sell it to someone who’s b...
KATJA MILLAY

And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being sav...
KATJA MILLAY

What? Sunshine fits you. It's bright and warm and happy. Just. Like. You.
KATJA MILLAY

Good morning, Sunshine.
KATJA MILLAY

When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.
KATJA MILLAY

The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.
KATJA MILLAY

When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, ...
KATJA MILLAY

People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on ...
KATJA MILLAY

And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY

Just so you know,” I inform him, “one day, I’m going to get tired of sharing your affection wi...
KATJA MILLAY

Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me.
KATJA MILLAY

We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain ea...
KATJA MILLAY

Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this...
KATJA MILLAY

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifter...
KATJA MILLAY

I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the kn...
KATJA MILLAY

I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrug...
KATJA MILLAY

But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.
KATJA MILLAY

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what...
KATJA MICHAEL

Well, I suppose that consequently makes you my favorite nightmare.
KATJA MICHAEL

I would like to go out with 50 Cent.
KATJA SCHUURMAN

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it'...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet ther...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- i...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a lit...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it pe...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I love humanity, but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Life must go on; I forget just why.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you wi...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It giv...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Tea was such a comfort.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It gives a lovely light.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I love humanity but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Music my rampart, and my only one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Song of a Second April

APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ag...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Long...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Ju...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m talking down a jumper. “I’m going to put my arms around you and I’m going to hold you,” I pause before taking the last step, “and you’re going to let me.

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I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m talking down a jumper. “I’m going to put my arms around you and I’m going to hold you,” I pause before taking the last step, “and you’re going to let me.

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