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Root yourself in this earth
and it will root itself in you.
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED![]()
From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of dou...
OMAR KHAYYáM![]()
What’s this?”
“An apology, of sorts.”
I made a moue, but slipped the lid from th...
CHLOE NEILL My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da...
ROBERTA PEARCE He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you....
J.A. ANUM![]()
Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as t...
ROBIN HOBB![]()
It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew ...
SARAH WATERS![]()
As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
As a man, I run away from...
ANTHONY LICCIONE![]()
Life is too short
Be with someone who takes your breath away
MIMI NOVIC![]()
I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?"
Pass,...
SARAH DESSEN Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY ![]()
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER![]()
You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”
SABAA TAHIR Okay,” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around ...
CINDY GERARD I was just lucky to be here after [Saturday]. I was one person away from not making the cut.
KENT JONES I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF![]()
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I h...
AMY TAN I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.
JAMES SHULER He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close ...
ROSE CHRISTO![]()
I tend to have really interested conversations with employers. They enjoy my interviews and they alw...
CRYSTAL EVANS Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی![]()
The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you s...
SARAH MCLACHLAN One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it migh...
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN My life was changed in one breath from God.
DONNA SUMMER I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicke...
فرید الدین عطار![]()
And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.
I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrench...
VERONICA ROTH![]()
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.'
Caelen took a deep breath, like ...
DEREK LANDY Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't...
SOPHIE JORDAN![]()
Give me one more night to taste the dark
When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark
Let those ...
MUNIA KHAN I do feel like a big bad child sometimes. Except I ran away from home when I was 49.
EILEEN MCLANE But I am a dreamer
So you sent me away.
Sometimes we dreamers
Just get in the way.
SHAWN MULLINS![]()
He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. ...
JENNY HAN![]()
Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard.
I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywher...
BECCA FITZPATRICK My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN Stay away from her."
"Okay."
"Keep your hands off her."
"I'll try."
He scowled a...
JENNIFER ECHOLS![]()
Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully.
I wiped my mouth with ...
KAREN MARIE MONING She was just trying to get me away from there so they would stop beating me.
GREG DARNELL![]()
Come away, come away, Death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out RICHELLE E. GOODRICH ![]()
Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."
Just when I was su...
MORGAN MATSON Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I w...
ZHANG ZIYI He is pretty reliable, but I guess one pitch just got away from him.
DAN NOBBS I own a crevice stuffed with moss
and a couch of lemming fur;
I sit and listen to the musi...
JOHN MEADE HAINES![]()
…As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-
no: as one presses it against a wound
RAINER MARIA RILKE Although it was her who took his breath away, the father away she was, the more he suffocated.
SAMUEL H. LOWE![]()
Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER![]()
Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?”
“Just one, my child. Just one.”
“I...
RENEE AHDIEH One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky fl...
MARGARET FISHBACK POWERS![]()
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child...
WALT WHITMAN![]()
The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS![]()
I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy b...
LISA KLEYPAS![]()
I don’t have my knife,” I mumble.
“Don’t start that,” Anna says. She walks away from...
KENDARE BLAKE![]()
I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES![]()
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby ...
SHANNON HALE![]()
I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE![]()
Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mention...
JODI PICOULT![]()
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that cu...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR![]()
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS![]()
I'll be gentle," Noah added. My breath caught in my throat as he looked at me from beneath those las...
MICHELLE HODKIN It was really painful. I just felt so vulnerable that someone could, with the stroke of a pen, cut m...
JEANA FRAZZINI If I can just help one child get through, that would be enough for me.
LUCAS FLEMING![]()
Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you wil...
KABIR![]()
Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing GAIL CARSON LEVINE ![]()
Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins---
He is looking at my nose---that skeleton
---What...
EDMOND ROSTAND Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.
Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE The revolution is just a T-shirt away.
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG But only a brief moment
is granted to the brave
one breath or two, whose wage is
The lon...
ALLAMA IQBAL![]()
Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?'
'Not really.'
Okay. ...
MICHELLE HODKIN![]()
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-
A sunny day with the leaves just turning,
The...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS![]()
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished...
JODI PICOULT I hide away in my room to see
Just what stories will come to me.
P.B. MCILRATH I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS![]()
An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.
I believe in you.<...
RICHELLE MEAD And she just walked away from me.
DARNELL DOZIER His legs are one of his strong points. I was just trying to stay away from his legs as much as possi...
KYLE DOHERTY He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want...
B.J. RYAN![]()
Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
HERACLITUS![]()
Promise me one thing wild child,
Never filter your soul to suit a mould.
NIKKI ROWE I wish I was away in Ingo
Far across the briny sea
Sailing over deepest waters
Where ...
HELEN DUNMORE I’ve pressed so
far away from
my desire that
if you asked
me what I
A.R. AMMONS I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pai...
A.C. BEXTOR From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to m...
EDIE FALCO![]()
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came ove...
ROBERT FROST![]()
Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
DAVID LEVITHAN I thought I was growing wings—
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the time to step...
DENISE LEVERTOV![]()
Feyre Archeron,' the Suriel said again, gazing at the leafy canopy, the sky peeking through it. A pa...
SARAH J. MAAS![]()
Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE![]()
Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN![]()
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore.
I was just me.
I was w...
RANATA SUZUKI Hush a-bye my little bird
Hush a-bye my child
I have lost a love so great
Oh...
KELLY CREAGH I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.
DOROTHY ATKINSON![]()
I was only a child
when I learned how to fly
I wanted to touch the colors of...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I'm sick. I just got a call from Brereton Jones, the former governor of Kentucky. He said that every...
MERV GRIFFIN
and it will root itself in you.
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED
From the house of unbeliefto true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of dou...
OMAR KHAYYáM
What’s this?” “An apology, of sorts.”
I made a moue, but slipped the lid from th...
CHLOE NEILL My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da...
ROBERTA PEARCE He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you....
J.A. ANUM
Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as t... ROBIN HOBB
It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew ... SARAH WATERS
As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Life is too short Be with someone who takes your breath away
MIMI NOVIC
I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?"Pass,...
SARAH DESSEN Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER
You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”SABAA TAHIR Okay,” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around ...
CINDY GERARD I was just lucky to be here after [Saturday]. I was one person away from not making the cut.
KENT JONES I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I h... AMY TAN I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.
JAMES SHULER He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close ...
ROSE CHRISTO
I tend to have really interested conversations with employers. They enjoy my interviews and they alw... CRYSTAL EVANS Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you s... SARAH MCLACHLAN One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it migh...
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN My life was changed in one breath from God.
DONNA SUMMER I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicke...
فرید الدین عطار
And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrench...
VERONICA ROTH
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like ...
DEREK LANDY Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't...
SOPHIE JORDAN
Give me one more night to taste the darkWhen wolves imitate a lone dog's bark
Let those ...
MUNIA KHAN I do feel like a big bad child sometimes. Except I ran away from home when I was 49.
EILEEN MCLANE But I am a dreamer
So you sent me away.
Sometimes we dreamers
Just get in the way.
SHAWN MULLINS
He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. ... JENNY HAN
Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard.I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywher...
BECCA FITZPATRICK My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN Stay away from her."
"Okay."
"Keep your hands off her."
"I'll try."
He scowled a...
JENNIFER ECHOLS
Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully.I wiped my mouth with ...
KAREN MARIE MONING She was just trying to get me away from there so they would stop beating me.
GREG DARNELL
Come away, come away, Death,And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If I could have one friend,just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."Just when I was su...
MORGAN MATSON Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I w...
ZHANG ZIYI He is pretty reliable, but I guess one pitch just got away from him.
DAN NOBBS I own a crevice stuffed with moss
and a couch of lemming fur;
I sit and listen to the musi...
JOHN MEADE HAINES
…As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-no: as one presses it against a wound
RAINER MARIA RILKE Although it was her who took his breath away, the father away she was, the more he suffocated.
SAMUEL H. LOWE
Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER
Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?”“Just one, my child. Just one.”
“I...
RENEE AHDIEH One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky fl...
MARGARET FISHBACK POWERS
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;How could I answer the child...
WALT WHITMAN
The question is, what are you going to do?"It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy b... LISA KLEYPAS
I don’t have my knife,” I mumble. “Don’t start that,” Anna says. She walks away from...
KENDARE BLAKE
I loved my friendHe went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby ... SHANNON HALE
I loved my friendHe went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE
Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mention... JODI PICOULT
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that cu... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breathTo say to me that thou art out of breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe... SARAH J. MAAS
I'll be gentle," Noah added. My breath caught in my throat as he looked at me from beneath those las... MICHELLE HODKIN It was really painful. I just felt so vulnerable that someone could, with the stroke of a pen, cut m...
JEANA FRAZZINI If I can just help one child get through, that would be enough for me.
LUCAS FLEMING
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you wil...
KABIR
Oak, granite,Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing
Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins---He is looking at my nose---that skeleton
---What...
EDMOND ROSTAND Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.
Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE The revolution is just a T-shirt away.
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG But only a brief moment
is granted to the brave
one breath or two, whose wage is
The lon...
ALLAMA IQBAL
Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?''Not really.'
Okay. ...
MICHELLE HODKIN
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-A sunny day with the leaves just turning,
The...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished... JODI PICOULT I hide away in my room to see
Just what stories will come to me.
P.B. MCILRATH I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS
An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.I believe in you.<...
RICHELLE MEAD And she just walked away from me.
DARNELL DOZIER His legs are one of his strong points. I was just trying to stay away from his legs as much as possi...
KYLE DOHERTY He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want...
B.J. RYAN
Give me one manfrom among ten thousand
if he is the best
HERACLITUS
Promise me one thing wild child, Never filter your soul to suit a mould.
NIKKI ROWE I wish I was away in Ingo
Far across the briny sea
Sailing over deepest waters
Where ...
HELEN DUNMORE I’ve pressed so
far away from
my desire that
if you asked
me what I
A.R. AMMONS I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pai...
A.C. BEXTOR From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to m...
EDIE FALCO
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cry
Came ove...
ROBERT FROST
Breathing, nYou had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
DAVID LEVITHAN I thought I was growing wings—
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the time to step...
DENISE LEVERTOV
Feyre Archeron,' the Suriel said again, gazing at the leafy canopy, the sky peeking through it. A pa... SARAH J. MAAS
Little FlyThy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every morningbefore the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore.
I was just me.
I was w...
RANATA SUZUKI Hush a-bye my little bird
Hush a-bye my child
I have lost a love so great
Oh...
KELLY CREAGH I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.
DOROTHY ATKINSON
I was only a childwhen I learned how to fly
I wanted to touch the colors of...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I'm sick. I just got a call from Brereton Jones, the former governor of Kentucky. He said that every...
MERV GRIFFIN
