She had just enough madness to make her interesting
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W. H. AUDEN I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild
ATTICUS POETRY There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS POETRY We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.
ATTICUS POETRY It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY Time is all we have and don’t.
ATTICUS POETRY That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY She wore the moonlight like lingerie.
ATTICUS POETRY From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
ATTICUS POETRY I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY She was everything real in a world of make-believe.
ATTICUS POETRY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
ATTICUS POETRY Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY Chase your stars fool, life is short.
ATTICUS POETRY Don't confuse poetry with madness.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.
She remembered years ago, when...
KAYLA KRANTZ Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's...
DON BLUTH She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Fari...
CORNELIA FUNKE My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t...
POLLY TOYNBEE Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
GRANT MORRISON It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried...
STIEG LARSSON Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.
ANNE SEXTON She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK I sat her one time, just to make an example out of her. It was on a Saturday and she came to practic...
GARY CRANE Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
JOHN RUSSELL We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo...
KRISTIN STEELE You've got to force her to stop playing just to get a rest. She just doesn't get enough of it.
JEFF BARKER Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terr...
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ Just about everybody in Brookneal knew her. She just had a way about her.
PAT BURSTEIN She is just that unsung kind of hero. She doesn't really like the commotion around her; she just lik...
TARA SAVOLT David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jad...
FRANCINE PASCAL Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearl...
GENA SHOWALTER We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her readin...
JULIE MITCHELL Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her fl...
PARUL WADHWA She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's ju...
JOHN GREEN A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated...
ELINOR GLYN Josie just had a different spirit than her atmosphere. She wanted to break out of the walls that wer...
JENNIFER ZIMMERMAN I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Her poetry, which she uses to examine her deepest feelings, is beautifully crafted, She's developed ...
KATE KELLY She culminated her career at the end. She just did what she had always done.
DAN MESSMANN She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
JOHN GREEN She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, w...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I wasn't watching her, I thought 'wow' when she told me she hit all 10, but I didn't care. I knew I ...
ALLIE WHITEHOUSE When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you s...
HARPER LEE The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of h...
MARKUS ZUSAK Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some ...
STEVEN LEVENKRON First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If she set her mind to it she'd do it. She just had that kind of spirit.
CONNIE KYRIACOU We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guard...
JOYCE JOHNSON I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL III Nobody believes me ... She goes through a very interesting journey in the film. One of the most chal...
JODIE FOSTER Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a ...
LORI ALEXANDER Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto...
RENEE AHDIEH She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS She had to make me feel comfortable with her decision making. I had to tone her down. As the season'...
ANN HANCOCK Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and veno...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December.
JAMIE WOODRUFF Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitel...
GAYLE ROPER She had an interesting and important political role,
BERNARD LANDRY Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi...
LYNNE RAE PERKINS By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face...
DAVID WHYTE She burns like the sun
Beautiful when she comes undone
No restraints
Pure passion flo...
MELODY LEE She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding.
BRIAN GLASS Watching the couple, she silently wishes she had just cleaned out her damn coffee pot.
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ERIN MCCARTHY We had somebody on Morton from one end of the floor to the other. I just told them, 'Don't let her w...
GAIL GLADDING Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE I just can't say enough about Shannon. She deserved a first-team selection. I think she had an outst...
CLINT WALLMAN She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She had her whole future in front of her, and this guy just ripped us apart from her.
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WILLIAM H. GASS The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy
madness of poetry without the ins...
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV They were found at a car wash after she had just had her babies. She was covered up with trash.
CONNIE GUTHRIE Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ...
SANA KRASIKOV Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ...
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I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild
ATTICUS POETRY There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
ATTICUS POETRY Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
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the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
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per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
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my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
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he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.
ATTICUS POETRY It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY Time is all we have and don’t.
ATTICUS POETRY That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY She was everything real in a world of make-believe.
ATTICUS POETRY She wore the moonlight like lingerie.
ATTICUS POETRY From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY Chase your stars fool, life is short.
ATTICUS POETRY It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
ATTICUS POETRY I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild.
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a wild pixie,
that if let go,
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