We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbeat against heartbeat.
We fit perfectly together.
L. Duarte
Related
over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA. every mouth you’ve ever kissed
was just practice
all the bodies you’ve ever undressed<...
WARSAN SHIRE The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Fl...
WALLACE STEVENS Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS all the girls you’ve ever loved, i think i loved them too.
interlude for the grand sonata
WARSAN SHIRE Bitter disappointment pushed tears from her eyes.
"Now what's wrong? I said you could wear it."...
DEEANNE GIST I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes E.E. CUMMINGS Those who
disrespect you
with their mouth
don't deserve
your ear.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES ...
You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...
- ...
DEYTH BANGER ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH Shh." I squeeze his hand. His palm feels clammy. "We have to keep it down, okay? We don't want my da...
A.G. HOWARD forcing manhood
on boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet."
A breathless chuckled escaped me.
"...
LISA KESSLER I felt angry,
frustrated.
I felt I didn't belong, not in my,
church, not in my...
ELLEN HOPKINS He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close ...
ROSE CHRISTO I offer you my mouth—
Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs,
I kneel between y...
CHANTELLE ANN Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
PABLO NERUDA Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We were The Hottentot Venus
Draped in our mothers' dresses,
Wearing rouge & lipstick,<...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Look at
how deeply flawed
we are
and yet
capable of loving
so perfec...
SANOBER KHAN you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
bette...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB Invisible
She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with d...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO burnt by the sun
of your mouth,
I’m unable to speak
or paint you with words
JOHN GEDDES Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.
I open my mouth
and du...
GABRIEL GADFLY Our bodies knock
and we pretend like we can't hear
They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI You know love is everything you say;
a whisper, a word,
promises you give.
You feel it ...
ENYA Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira...
TSUGUMI OHBA whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderf...
MICHAEL TYLER You’ve always been a storm
Your lightning mouth
Electrifies my heart
HOLLY DUCARTE l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)o
ne
li
ne
ss
E.E. CUMMINGS Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
LAO TZU Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research."
The words were out of L...
APRILYNNE PIKE Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ...
VERONICA ROTH The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI While they all ink their skin,
I crave something permanent within.
Bare your soul
Ope...
MELODY LEE Does God know
the number of kisses
before we fall in love?
Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI He was a late night
shot of bourbon
the taste of him
left me burning
with mouth...
MELODY LEE XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED
It is impossible for my mother to do even
the simplest...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and tha...
PABLO NERUDA And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON Our marriage began
with knots and fangs;
vows inked on skin.
Black venom stained
JALINA MHYANA She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN At the steamy train station
in New Orleans, horrifying signs
above drinking fountains
MARGARITA ENGLE I think I'm beginning to understand
how hearts fit together.
Not like diseased carnations ...
RILEY REDGATE I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard...
BIBLE I'm sure you would have stopped it if you could have."
"In a heartbeat.
KIERA CASS We had to react immediately because in December
we were beginning to lose customers who we...
RICHARD BLISS I find that...
The bigger the ego.
The bigger the mouth.
The deeper the shallowness o...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Negative.
"Mouth closed, politely.
JOSIN L. MCQUEIN We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelt...
ELLEN HOPKINS You may build sky scrapers
Mutate leather thick skin
There is a higher power however
...
EVY MICHAELS Human tragedies:
We all want to be extraordinary
and we all just want to fit in.
Unfo...
SEBASTYNE YOUNG we met one strange summer
in a regular tangle of sticky webs
you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE ...
'All the hard work of a man is to fill his mouth; yet his appetite is never satisfied."
ANONYMOUS Are you mine?” I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I f...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were ...
DIANA GABALDON The door is cracked
We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance
on a hot summer night
Fast...
JUDE COLE Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage...
RUTA SEPETYS The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden<...
ALLEN GINSBERG We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE We were told that if we didn't [contribute], they were going to have to do without the bleachers and...
CAROL PAGE I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers up...
BEAU TAPLIN Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?
His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS so your father told you once
that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS As a woman still,
without the right kind of mouth,
my tongue’s of no use.
KRISTEN HENDERSON Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell.
ALFRED TENNYSON Pull your shirt up over your mouth,” he told Wylan.
“What?”
“Stop being dense. You...
LEIGH BARDUGO Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker
do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster.
"Wi...
LISA KLEYPAS When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
HENRY ROLLINS I’m not dangerous,” I breathed.
He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.”...
RICHELLE MEAD You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
HARPER LEE June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven<...
A.E. HOUSMAN I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA Until nothing at all existed between them.
But shared breaths.
And unspoken promises.
RENéE AHDIEH At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.
It i...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
- Queen Bitch
DAVID BOWIE for the fifth time this month
you say you’re going to leave him
he calls you a cunt over...
WARSAN SHIRE My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don’t care that they are naked.
The...
ANDREA GIBSON Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.
-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER People, like us
we feel... too deeply
consumed, in shadow
this game of chance.
T...
BEV FLYNN Your smile breaks my heart,
And your laughter burns my skin,
And if I had to tell you how ...
MARGO T. ROSE if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies
we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets.
[...]
I have ...
JODI PICOULT Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togethe...
JANET MILES
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L Your cynical ways define your soul
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L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
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L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
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L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown.
God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
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L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
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L. ESTRANGE We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L. Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
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BOB L. That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
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METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
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It’s another mistake not to corr...
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PETER L. BERGER Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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RANDALL L. STEPHENSON E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic tru...
VERNON L. SMITH After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a ve...
VERNON L. SMITH I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
VERNON L. SMITH In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions an...
VERNON L. SMITH Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
VERNON L. SMITH After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary ...
VERNON L. SMITH I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made wit...
VERNON L. SMITH But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought...
J. L. AUSTIN Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictur...
J. L. AUSTIN Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. AUSTIN There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. AUSTIN Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremo...
J. L. AUSTIN Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. AUSTIN Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. AUSTIN In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we adm...
J. L. AUSTIN Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to...
R. L. STINE For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER