Marisa Crane

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. But the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. (Anna Karenina)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

I can’t help this awful energy. God damn right, you should be scared of me.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

What’s my hand without your heart to hold?

If you wanna break these walls down, you’re gonna get bruised.