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A wind with a wolf's head
Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
And sat upon the floor. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

My mother's hope is a weapon. — Katja Millay

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, - and the long year remembers you. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Seriously, Josh. What the hell? — Katja Millay

Maybe I can save her right now, in this moment, and if I can do that, maybe it will save me and maybe that can be enough. — Katja Millay

All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

And that's the most confusing part - figuring out what's true. — Katja Millay

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

She glares at me like I spend my free time murdering puppies. — Katja Millay

And he whose soul is flat
the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

He's the kind of good-looking that transforms once self-respecting females into useless puddles of dumbass. — Katja Millay

I don't know if I'm okay. It shouldn't be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside you. — Katja Millay

There really isn't a way to explain how a person you've seen every day of your life just isn't anymore. Someone just hit delete and she's gone. — Katja Millay

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book. — Katja Millay

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I don't do hugging. I don't like people touching me ever when there's no treat involved. It's too intimate and it bothers me. — Katja Millay

I don't know how to regret it. Because that would mean to regret that I ever met her and I can't make myself do that. — Katja Millay

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night falls fast. Today is the past. — John Green

The younger generation forms a country of its own. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Prisoner
All right,
Go ahead!
What's in a name?
I guess I'll be locked into
As much as I'm locked out of! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I would like to believe in the dream of second chances. For both of us. — Katja Millay

He needs to be able to fix things and make it all better; to believe that you're okay so that he can believe that he's okay. — Katja Millay

Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me. — Katja Millay

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting. (pg 106-107) — Katja Millay

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

He's the be all and end all of my friends right now. — Katja Millay

Girls always want to change the rules in the middle of the game. — Katja Millay

He holds up a finger to her to convey that he'll just be a minute. If I were him, I'd choose a different finger. — Katja Millay

Didn't you say she lives in Josh's neighborhood? Mrs. Leighton asks. I think I actually hear her loading the bullets into that question. — Katja Millay

Everything is hell now and I deserve it, but I can handle pain. — Katja Millay

My life spontaneously combusted... — Katja Millay

[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I'm going to be rejected, I'd like it to come complete with humiliation. — Katja Millay

Congratulations, then. You wanted to be ruined? Well, you did yourself one better because you wrecked me, too, Sunshine. Now we're both worth shit. — Katja Millay

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life must go on, Though good men die. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I'm not trying to capture one face. I'm trying to capture all the faces. — Katja Millay

Do you know what I found?
Of course I do, and you know that I do. You just want to ask for dramatic effect and then you're going to tell me anyway. — Katja Millay

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I would blossom if I were a rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Man has never been the same since God died. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good morning, Sunshine. — Katja Millay

I screamed, and
lo!
Infinity
Came down and settled over me — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I — Katja Millay

It must be kind of depressing to have to teach someone who surpasses your abilities on every level. — Katja Millay

Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Some people have problems and you need to learn to empathize, not judge. — Katja Millay

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The silent thing is definitely a barrier in terms of making friends — Katja Millay

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. — Katja Millay

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before — Edna St. Vincent Millay

And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good Morning, Sunshine! Josh F**king Bennett. By now, I'm pretty sure that if I were to find his birth certificate that is exactly what it would say. — Katja Millay

And if there is any part of my heart left to break, it breaks with his confusion. — Katja Millay

Was the cake at least good? He knows where my heart lies. — Katja Millay

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I can always think about cake. — Katja Millay

Without music I should wish to die. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay. — Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe I just wanted the girl to look at me again. (Josh) — Katja Millay

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all. — Katja Millay

It seems like the more my body healed, the more fractured my mind became, and there aren't enough wires and screws to fix he breaks in it. — Katja Millay

I'm wondering if I'm allowed to hate Josh Bennett, because I'm thinking I might start. — Katja Millay

Dying isn't so bad after you've done it once. . . — Katja Millay

It's bad enough that my brain is a cesspool; I can't imagine the hellhole my heart would be if he wasn't in it. Since — Katja Millay

There's something about knowing that I broke my father's heart that makes me hate myself a little more than I already do. — Katja Millay

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Take up the song; forget the epitaph. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. — Katja Millay

You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing. — Katja Millay