That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.
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A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. Sh...
RAYMOND CHANDLER she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
HARPER LEE And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our ...
BRYONIE WISE Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great N...
JAMES HOWELL Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despit...
G.G. RENEE HILL The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Cole didn’t see her for the rest of the weekend, and he was glad.
She wasn’t in class on Mo...
DANIKA STONE Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppi...
J.R. WARD Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are ...
CAROLINE STEVERMER She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH She knew it was time,
What for was the mystery
but focused; she remained.
She turne...
NIKKI ROWE She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
EMILY DICKINSON See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
i...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
And then,...
JULIA QUINN Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS The multicolored kitten snuggled between her breasts.
Lucky cat.
"I thought ma...
CANDIS TERRY Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER from Out of the Darkness (book 2):
Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was sti...
JAIME RUSH She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no d...
HUBERT MARTIN THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul...
W.B. YEATS Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
EMILY BRONTë Silvia frowned, then she suddenly shouted. 'Mark and Gladson, get back to your seats!'
A ...
DEEPIKA KUMAARAGURU I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the...
R.C. GIBBONS It is often in the darkest
skies that we see the
brightest stars.
RICHARD EVANS over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE Tonight I Can Write
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for e...
PABLO NERUDA She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying....
V.E. SCHWAB Power
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divul...
ADRIENNE RICH There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still k...
KRISTEN MCKEE KUNDALINI DANCE
Dark and cold and wet were Her hands
I felt Her chilly breath inside...
NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY If only one day,
their worlds could meet,
just halfway.
She would outplay,
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER What does Éloa mean?”
He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
SARAH MACLEAN Saturated Arrogance
...she rebuked those about her
in darkness did she dwell
a ...
MUSE She picked up the phone and dialed Blake's number. His silky hello made her smile.
"You'...
DEBRA ANASTASIA Her close friends have gathered.
Lord, ain't it a shame
Grieving together
Sharing the...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON The sea loved the moon
When she was supposed to love the shore.
The moon knew
A...
SAIBER A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It ...
ROBERT FANNEY If you aren’t willing
to love her,
do not put dents
on her heart
that will inf...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY I just want to know—are you rooting for me? Are you hoping I pull this off?"
Cath's eye...
RAINBOW ROWELL Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
NIKKI ROWE There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE Duende
I can't remember her name.
It's not as though I've been in bed
with that...
JACK GILBERT As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example,'The night is shattered
an...
PABLO NERUDA One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you adde...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles
but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from
We...
DAVE MATTHES There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON He yearned for a glimpse of her throughout the day,
Only at nights he could see her,
Be w...
ANONYMOUS Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE MOM
Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY Even in the darkest clouds
There are specks of joy
Out of the darkness
Comes light KAREN HACKEL "she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachmen...
RACHEL THOMPSON Survive
...
Some women survive
by creating walls,
big walls guarding their heart...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make...
LEWIS CARROLL Her pleasure went on and on, and so did Ben's. Ben could almost smell the gardenia, could almost see...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.
He knew her. DENNIS LEHANE 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 a girl I knew who always wanted to be the one to stand out from the crowd
Always belie...
LINDSAY LOHAN For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth....
MICHAEL GRANT Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with...
MARY BALOGH I shall never marry, Atticus."
"Why?"
"I might have children.
HARPER LEE It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
All dressed in white
Going to the churc...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA So what was that all about?"
"I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango....
CASSANDRA CLARE She's Devine.
She's Magic.
And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo...
C.R. BITTAR I'd been making desicions for days.
I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever-
a bl...
JANDY NELSON even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN You're my bodyguard and lover."
She shook her head. "Just your bodyguard."
"He...
JANET EVANOVICH I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.
oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There was a young girl named Ratchet.
She had skill and no one could match it.
She wanted ...
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH Mary was like a caged tiger in the first days of her captivity. Keen, alert, and watchful, she liste...
MARGARET GEORGE Failing and Flying"
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when lo...
JACK GILBERT Fantasy like thought that no man could rain
Just let her reign
Run wild with her unafraid<...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.
AMIE KAUFMAN My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds;
no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <...
AESCHYLUS In a
few hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll see
her dressed in blood, her hair...
KENDARE BLAKE She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until sh...
HARTLEY COLERIDGE Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought ...
TIM BURTON She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.
She doesn’t we...
ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS We hate to see her go, ... We were hoping that she would
stay a while, with all the wonde...
BRUCE WHITE The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef...
ROBERT FROST
More Atticus Poetry
I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild
ATTICUS POETRY There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY She had just enough madness to make her interesting
ATTICUS POETRY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
ATTICUS POETRY Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS POETRY We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.
ATTICUS POETRY It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY Time is all we have and don’t.
ATTICUS POETRY She was everything real in a world of make-believe.
ATTICUS POETRY She wore the moonlight like lingerie.
ATTICUS POETRY From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY Chase your stars fool, life is short.
ATTICUS POETRY It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
ATTICUS POETRY I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild.
ATTICUS I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
ATTICUS I've always resented mirrors for their honesty.
ATTICUS It's a sad thing, protecting a breakable heart.
ATTICUS I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you cli...
ATTICUS Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...
ATTICUS There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son, ... I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That...
ATTICUS Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was...
ATTICUS SHAFFER My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looki...
ATTICUS SHAFFER When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
ATTICUS FINCH A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then th...
ATTICUS ROSS If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...
ATTICUS FINCH Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg...
ATTICUS FINCH There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's n...
ATTICUS FINCH All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is hard...
ATTICUS SHAFFER Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and t...
ATTICUS ROSS I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved...
ATTICUS ROSS My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
ATTICUS ROSS I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
ATTICUS ROSS My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young...
ATTICUS ROSS My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
ATTICUS ROSS For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
ATTICUS ROSS Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so ...
ATTICUS ROSS I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!
ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I love any comedic zombie movies.
ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then bein...
ATTICUS SHAFFER We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it ver...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't...
ATTICUS SHAFFER Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone ...
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