Chelsey Quotes

#1. 1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy

Yelawolf

#2. When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.

Chelsea Cain

#3. I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable, so full of unexpected joys and unforgettable love that no box could possibly contain all my memories.

Chelsey Philpot

#4. Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

Chelsey Philpot

#5. This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

Charles Nicholl

#6. But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

Chelsey Philpot

#7. Even with her red-rimmed eyes she was the reason artists painted portraits.

Chelsey Philpot

#8. I'm sorry,' I whispered. I didn't know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

Chelsey Philpot

#9. I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ...

Chelsey Minnis

#10. Do you still do the clubs?"
Jake shakes his head. "You do the clubs
because you can't find what you need at home. I've got everything I need. I've got the answer to needs I didn't even know I had.

Josh Lanyon

#11. Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

Chelsey Philpot

#12. Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so?

Gemma Halliday

#13. (A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for those/who cannot/withstand unreasonable tenderness.

Chelsey Minnis

#14. Sir William had only stayed in our company for two nights before leaving during a spectacularly blustery storm. As I watched him leave I evilly hoped that the wind would blow him straight off his horse.

M.L. LeGette

#15. Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it's frustrations and confusions, too.

Chelsey Philpot

#16. It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.

Derek Drouin

#17. The burst of love I felt for her spread through me like blue paint turning red to purple.

Chelsey Philpot

#18. They were perfect. They were flawed. They were scarred and beautiful. They were too familiar with death and clung to life by clinging to one another. The Great Buchanans were only human, after all.

Chelsey Philpot

#19. Her dark hair glistened in the sun. Small, almost heart-shaped lips stayed motionless. The Amulet around her neck reflected sun rays, sending hundreds of tiny blue specks to dance on her half-covered breasts, bare shoulders, and neck.

A.O. Peart

#20. Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

Libba Bray

#21. Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#22. G All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 h but the word of the Lord remains forever.

Anonymous

#23. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

Chelsey Philpot

#24. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

Chelsey Philpot

#25. The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

Chelsey Philpot

#26. For a time, I missed them like winter misses warmth. I could not breathe without her. I could not feel without him.

Chelsey Philpot

#27. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.

Chelsey Philpot

#28. A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness ...
It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool ...
Or an a empty gun indentation in velvet ...
And a baby gazelle given as a gift ...

Chelsey Minnis

#29. Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.

Chelsey Minnis

#30. She rests her hand on top of mine as I touch her everywhere. She's not guiding me, just staying with me, a deeper connection as I continue my seduction.

Kris Bryant

#31. So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.

Chelsey Philpot

#32. We are solitary creatures that come together in packs so we can survive as a species. We'll do anything to preserve the social status quo, including omit, deny, and lie. Complete honesty would be detrimental to the survival of the race.

Chelsey Philpot

#33. This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.

Chelsey Philpot

#34. As children we read to escape - to enter fantasy worlds where a bespectacled boy can discover he's a wizard or a brave girl can find a magical passage through a wardrobe. But we also read to find reflections of ourselves.

Chelsey Philpot

#35. Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

Lawrence Kushner

#36. It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Karen Armstrong

#37. The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.

Chelsey Philpot