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For the record, I'm in the midst of a penis panic attack.

If Mom died, the sun would go out. Period.

Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.

Until it's not clear if he's making the sculpture or if the sculpture is making him.

I'm having a hand problem. How come everyone else seems to know what to do with them? Pockets, I remember with relief, pockets, I love pockets!

When I draw it, I'm going to make my skin see-through and what you'll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages.

The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

A few times I try to form a question so it sounds casual and normal, but each time the words get caught somewhere in my throat and never make it out.

The feet of ghosts never touch the ground.

She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.

There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I'd like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

To change the leanings of the heart, wear a wasp nest on the head (Not this desperate. Yet.)

I want to hurl a building at God.

What is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.

See? Other mothers don't have their own private weather.

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

I'm so happy, I feel like I'm jumping on a trampoline, just boinging around inside myself.

Grief was a room filled with hungry desperate light.

I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first.

If one twin is cut, the other will bleed

She gives off light, I give off dark.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

you give me global warming! But

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

I can't seem to keep you out like I can everyone else. That I think you could devastate me.

That's what I said. There's no peace to disturb. I kept telling the cop: No. Peace. To. Disturb. Man.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

I have a window in my chest where sunlight is pouring in.

We're petal people. I think about the earthquake kiss in the alcove and want to cry again.

What slumbers in the heart is what slumbers in the stone, understand?

all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages. "Maybe

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks

I wait in the cold air where his body was.

What am I doing? Well, I'm doing it.

I, however, am a different story. I have not taught in years. I will not. Probably not ever again.

I can see sound, the dark green howling wind, the crimson crush of rain - all

It's like he's fallen out of time.

It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

I want to put my hands on your chest. I want to be in a thimble with you.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

Parents aren't allowed to kiss like this!

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking.

I feel relaxed now, I mean supernaturally relaxed, like I'm left out butter.

Again and again his tongue returns to that space between his front teeth. I'll look at this tree instead.

I think you might very well be the most eccentric person I've ever met.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

He had a mad desire to draw, to kiss the boy next door, , to peel the blue off the sky, to be the blue in the sky.

I can't believe Gram just said sex appeal.

See feel draw: One verb.

That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.

I've forgotten quite how luminous he is, like another species of human that doesn't have blood but light running through their veins.

I watch him throw his head back in supreme happiness, like he's hearing that he gets to choose the colors for all the sunsets from now on.

They're my ladies," she'd tell Bails and me. "Halfway between here and there.

It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.

What's your major, Lennie? Oh yeah: Dorkology.

In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.

She gives of light. I give off dark. (PORTRAIT, SELF-PORTRAIT: Twins: The Flashlight and the Flashdark

A broken heart is an open heart.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.

I'm convinced the storm's going to bust down the walls. Then it does and I'm remembering Dad's dream because it's happening.

I have a very low eerie threshold.

Who knows if [maybe] destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life?

I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her.

If you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me.

It's like a hand at your throat all the time, isn't it? Nothing's inevitable anymore. Not the next heartbeat, not anything.

Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we're made of the same air.

So much blood's rushing and gushing to my head it might blow straight off my neck.

I love you," I say to him, only it comes out, "Hey."
"So damn much," he says back, only it comes out, "Dude."
He still won't meet my eyes.

Write your sins on apples still hanging on the tree; when they fall away so do your burdens (There

His soul might be a sun. I've never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.

It's the easiest thing to be lost if you don't want to be found.

If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof

You're going to obliterate me, you know.
- Oscar Ralph to Jude Sweetwine

I didn't know you could get buried in your own silence.

No woman can resist a man who has tidal waves and earthquakes beneath the skin.

I liked love safe between the covers of my novel.

I think the heart of every living thing on earth is beating in my body.

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

Love's so complicated, Noah, isn't it?" I

You asked what it would be like. This is what it will be like. I don't want to be just friends.

... so so lonely, like, I don't know, a day without birds or something.

Your first lesson: My studio is not a democracy. Have a donut.

I need my skull in one piece. Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what's inside.

He carries pieces of the galaxy around in a bag

I can unzip the air and disappear inside it.

Because how could he have done this?
How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?

Really?... I'll take that as a challenge.

I feel way cool, like I'm wearing sunglasses even though I'm not.