Marisa Crane

I’m just a broken person looking for other broken people who may have gotten shards of me stuck in their feet and aren’t too concerned about pulling them out.

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

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

And all the while I thought I was drowning, I was actually the one holding my head under the water.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.