Marisa Crane

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

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

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

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

Love is the absence of judgment.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I’m well acquainted with villains that live in my head.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

She doesn’t let me have control anymore. I must’ve crossed a line, I must’ve lost my mind.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

Provided that he only broke you into pieces, you still have it all, like a pizza in slices, every. bite, delicious. You may not feel whole, but you are no less because of a feeling.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.