My Favorite Quotes and Poems
"angels ain't just flesh & feather.
they come in different palettes—
sea foam. cherry bark. rose thorn.
in the right heaven-yellow light
anything could be holy enough to save you."
- Keaton St. James
"there isn't much that scares me more than my own heart,
a monster of tenderness if there ever was such a thing.
it sounds strange, but
I have an irrational fear that one day I'll wake up to find it (it being my heart) perched at the foot of my bed in a cloud of desperation, begging to be torn apart and consumed in the name of compassion.
and that's incredibly terrifying for a few different reasons, but mainly because I'd do it.
I've never needed an excuse to sacrifice myself for love; I'm a martyr for everything soft.
I confess to you: I'd bleed for anything if it held me the right way.
I confess: I have. I have. I have."
- Caitlin Conlon
"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. ...Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. ...For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity."
- G.K. Chesterton
