St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself.

Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.

We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here, " I whisper."Are you getting your ax?""Handcuffs.""Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed.

Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.

I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"