"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."

"I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm"

"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."

"I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you cannot stand."

"After all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."

"People escape into other things; you don’t escape into poetry. You confront yourself when you are reading poems; they draw you inward, they don’t project you outward. I think people want to escape themselves. They do not want to do the work. They want to been entertained. Poetry is a kind of entertainment but a different kind, its meditative."

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"i play dead, it stops the hurting. i play dead and the hurting stops. it’s sometimes just like sleeping, curling up inside my private tortures. i nestle into pain, hug suffering, caress every ache."

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"The best woman is always taken for granted. She will love you until you feel you deserve her, therefore you forget to treat her like you don’t."

"Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful."

"If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."

"I wish you’d find the exit out of my head."

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."