Marisa Crane

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

The love we shared is a paper town on a map we drew ourselves, drunk and fucked and needing to be more than we were.

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

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.