"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
Charles Bukowski
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She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES she needed no royal
title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.
EARL SPENCER She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent h...
ARUNDHATI ROY Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, ye...
JERRY SPINELLI There was a young girl named Ratchet.
She had skill and no one could match it.
She wanted ...
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?"
She laughed and shook her head. "No. T...
RICHELLE MEAD I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her ...
JAMES LOWRY Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?”
Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fer...
MARISSA MEYER She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not...
SHAKUITA JOHNSON The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashe...
AVIJEET DAS But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with ...
VIRGIL She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachmen...
RACHEL THOMPSON Whatever she says to you, it’s your job
not to let her make you mad.
HARPER LEE In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called yo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Alex thrust her hand and half her arm into the labyrinth of light.
Her stare blanked, and in t...
G.S. JENNSEN There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER She has that in her, and we see it in spurts. Girls actually get mad at her in practice; she knocks ...
KATIE WHALEN There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do
and a madman
does excep...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Christmas poem to a man in jail
hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around wai...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some l...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was s...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She takes care of you when you are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth....
MICHAEL GRANT Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."
"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN She knew it was time,
What for was the mystery
but focused; she remained.
She turne...
NIKKI ROWE She was patrolling the forest enforcing the no-fire ban. She got out of her government vehicle with ...
JEFF DORSCHNER She had a fire in her you would love the sweetest person, but she let you know if you messed up.
ANDRE COHEN She had a fire in her you would love the sweetest person, but she let you know if you messed up.
ANDRE COHEN She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.
HEATHER ROSS Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON From up here, the city below looked calm. Peaceful. Serene.
It was a lie.
Mia...
G.S. JENNSEN Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
“What do you think?�...
K. LARS You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN She's Devine.
She's Magic.
And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo...
C.R. BITTAR She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.
GIOVANNIE DE SADELEER we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live."
"Did she?" Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but...
MARGARET SMITH But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
VERONICA ROTH Leslie played with a little chip on her shoulder, but it was a good chip. It wasn't nasty or mean, b...
LYNN RIBOLINI Keep an eye out for her,
she tends to disappear
intermittently, leaving no
note for o...
AKASH MANDAL There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand acro...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still k...
KRISTEN MCKEE She was enjoying being with Charles. There was nothing relevant to her other than Charles. It's like...
XAVIER AMADOR she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
bu...
LANG LEAV Magic ran between them like a current, a cord, and he wondered who she would have been if she’d st...
V.E. SCHWAB She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next qu...
NIKKI ROWE When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
HENRY ROLLINS Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Paris has said she is mad about poker and that she always wins in Vegas. We're offering her the chan...
WARREN LUSH Just what she needed. More filth in her soul. Someday, maybe, she would explode from it, someday may...
STACIA KANE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.
....
PETER CAREY Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despit...
G.G. RENEE HILL With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,
Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to ...
BOETHIUS - QUEEN ELIZABETH I TRANSLATION In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no...
J.R. WARD Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wa...
RICK RIORDAN Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ...
AKSHAY VASU She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer.
She will let it ther...
KUSUMASTUTI Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know ...
DANIELLE MONSCH She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage,...
MICHELLE CLIFF She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the...
LAUREN VALENCIA THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul...
W.B. YEATS Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside.
A face no one recognized be...
SOMAN CHAINANI The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, ...
NALINI SINGH In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she walt...
SARAH J. MAAS There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was...
DAVID WEBER I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me her room, isn't it good, ...
NORWEGIAN WOOD (THE BEATLES) She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
NIKKI ROWE Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to ...
NORA ROBERTS But she had nothing. She had forbidden music. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audien...
VIRGINIA WOOLF She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l...
HENRY JAMES [Her lawyer, Robert Axelrod, said there was no doubt she committed the theft, but she claimed she wa...
ROBERT AXELROD So she (James) got mad at me because she felt like I was treating her like a thief.
KELLY RYAN She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.
NIKKI ROWE Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?'
'What, precisely, are you trying to ...
STEVEN ERIKSON She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention...
SARAH J. MAAS I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no...
DOUGLAS ADAMS She always,
She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,
So she stopped,
S...
TRUTH DEVOUR KUNDALINI DANCE
Dark and cold and wet were Her hands
I felt Her chilly breath inside...
NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.
She remembered years ago, when...
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Z. ...
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one of the mos...
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como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI