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you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.


Charles Bukowski

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CHARLAINE HARRIS A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madne...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Drualt took Freya's warm hand,
Her strong hand,
Her sword hand,
And pressed it to his...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror

Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on l...
JOHN SHELTON JONES I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'

'I won't let you fall.
NALINI SINGH Can I help you with something?"
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls o...
CASSANDRA CLARE Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
A...
CHRISTOPHER LOGUE Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and i...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
MARGARET ATWOOD Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are generally at least three sides to any story, though.”
“Three?”
“One side...
GARON WHITED How Many Michals Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

And the lamp was on
Darkening u...
MICHAL CORET To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No

Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the s...
W.B. YEATS His hands fluttered like birds,
each with a fancy silk ribbon
to weave into their nest, TED KOOSER Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are th...
CRISS JAMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

RUMI Up past the old lime kiln
built into the side of a hill
we take a hard right at a cleari...
KRISTEN HENDERSON May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea

drifting in
thr...
SANOBER KHAN So you want to know all about me, Who
I am
What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte...
ELLEN HOPKINS Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Walk straight ahead
Listen to no one
Trust not in the walls or doorways
For they will...
RENéE PAULE Raeanne
Mirror, Mirror

When I look into a
mirror,
it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before<...
WILLIAM C. HANNAN sometimes
moms are bribes,
bludgeoning,
with tongues that chase you
whenever you...
KAY ULANDAY BARRETT I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we l...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Intoxicate me with the beauty
and breath of your soul.
Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE Dear Human:
You've got it all wrong.

You didn't come here to master unconditional lo...
COURTNEY A. WALSH The sun shines through the window
And the sun shines through your hair
It seems like you'r...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN ....And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me....

"What are you looking at, idiot?" I...
KRISTAN HIGGINS some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.
AVA. CALL YOURSELF

Look deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN What did one mirror see in the other?
Nothing.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Your fragrance wafts into the spaces between my breaths
While I keep staring at the sky every n...
AVIJEET DAS He yells, "I want any part of you that you’re willing to give me!"
We both fall quiet. Breath...
EMMA CHASE They were staring at Will, Will looks wrong."
Tessa glanced over at Will, who was rummaging th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Un...
ALLY CARTER Though it's fearful,
Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A fi...
COLLEEN HOOVER HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION

I am born as the sun,
But then turn into the moon, SUZY KASSEM The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON Maybe I could do it."

Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your ...
J.R. WARD I realized then what had happened.

She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into g...
JIM BUTCHER during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roar...
SARAH J. MAAS This is what it had come to. Glitter. How he thought glitter had been a good idea, the Gods only kne...
K.F. BREENE Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Mom?” he whispered. “Dad?”

They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry look...
J.K. ROWLING What do you mean 'most of the damage happened to my face'?"
She gestured to the mirror above t...
RICHELLE MEAD Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS What are you smiling at?”

I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO Balanced at the top of the hill
Do I explore the other side
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to...
VERA NAZARIAN When I look in the mirror,
I see me.
Who do you see?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I want to see the front of you.”
“That’s what all the girls say.”
“Do you expect...
J.R. WARD Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Have you ever
had so much to say
that your mouth closed up tight
struggling to harnes...
ELLEN HOPKINS Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The s...
WILL DURANT Through this broad street, restless ever,
Ebbs and flows a human tide,
Wave on wave a living ...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker

do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER So you want to know all about me. Who
I am.
What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte...
ELLEN HOPKINS "Since love first made the breast an instrument
Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart
W...
ALLAMA IQBAL For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
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SUSAN C. YOUNG Scenes from the Playroom

Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with a...
R.S. GWYNN Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me am...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through m...
DANTE ALIGHIERI When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly.

He just looked at her. Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram)
SAINT AUGUSTINE RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING

The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was growing wings—
it was a cocoon.

I thought, now is the time to step...
DENISE LEVERTOV Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS Dad, will they ever come back?"

"No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not the...
RAY BRADBURY I stare at your lips
and fall in love with the way
they form what you say.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin...
TAHEREH MAFI Do not mourn me, friends
I fall as a shooting star
Into the next life
JOHN SCALZI A double-edged sword
One side destroys
One releases
I am your Gordian knot
Will ...
P.C. CAST nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Sera...
RACHEL HARTMAN LET’S GO BACK HOME

I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY ... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and fort...
LEONARD COHEN The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
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como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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than being alone
but it often takes
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that I had n...
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to the
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they have nothing to struggle
for.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
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