E. M. Crane Quotes

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey.

...hope. Simple hope.It was something we all deserved.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

she is born in the breath of a cloud

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

At his words not my body, but my soul bucked, decimating barriers that until then had been untouched.

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

Think with your eyes open.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again.

You're killing me, little human.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?

The rose has toldIn one simplicityThat never lifeRelinquishes a bloomBut to bestowAn ancient confidence.

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?

Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

Fall, sweetheart. I'll catch you.

You don't appreciate the things that come easy. The things we fight for are the things we keep with us forever.

He leaned in close and spoke low. "Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it to memory.

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back.

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.

Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.

There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.

It's fate, but fate just gives us a nudge in the right direction onthe fast lane, I guarantee she doesn't have her hands in your pockets while she's doing it

But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.""I know, " he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.

I've never been in love, but if a penguin can find a soul mate, I'm sure I can, too.

We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make youforget.