Clevenger Quotes

#1. A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Craig Clevenger

#2. I love you, I said, but not out loud.

Craig Clevenger

#3. I am lost in my world,
invisible - unknown.
Moon please lend me
your light that someone
will me see me.

Susie Clevenger

#4. Her gaze follows my every move. I think she can feel something is weird but hasn't put her finger on it yet. Maybe she's seen my fangs and written them off as gimmick. I fucking love gimmicks. They're so convenient to hide behind.

Carrie Clevenger

#5. You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.

Craig Clevenger

#6. Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the pastp.193

Craig Clevenger

#7. Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me.

Craig Clevenger

#8. I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses.

Susie Clevenger

#9. I'll even let her tie me to a chair if it'll make her feel better.

Carrie Clevenger

#10. Life is a poem
just waiting to be written,
lift your pen and speak.

Susie Clevenger

#11. If you wish to know me,
just ask.

Susie Clevenger

#12. If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil.

Craig Clevenger

#13. I didn't know the demons
that walked across your memory.
They came from the dust
when you were at peace
in your grave.

Susie Clevenger

#14. Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength.

Craig Clevenger

#15. Life goes on in the same manner,
evil wins and peace is slaughtered.
Change the channel, change the view,
tired of the same reruns on the evening news.

Susie Clevenger

#16. The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

Craig Clevenger

#17. I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Craig Clevenger

#18. Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Craig Clevenger

#19. If there is passion, let me feel its heat.
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

Susie Clevenger

#20. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.

Craig Clevenger

#21. They see my fingers, they run. Dominique. Alicia. Penny.

They see my fingers, they want their hair pulled. Alex. Renee. Kristin.

Craig Clevenger

#22. When you're in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you're in love with a person, but you're in love with a syringe.

Craig Clevenger

#23. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

Susie Clevenger

#24. I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

#25. It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

Craig Clevenger

#26. Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning ... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

Craig Clevenger

#27. There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.

Susie Clevenger

#28. People can numb themselves, get used to anything.

Craig Clevenger

#29. If no God, there must at least be a pattern-making demiurge.

Craig Clevenger

#30. But the walls of my resolve
mortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone.

Susie Clevenger

#31. Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.

Craig Clevenger

#32. I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.
Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

Susie Clevenger

#33. Call it fate--call it talent. I had a knack for getting in the nastiest messes.

Carrie Clevenger

#34. I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

Craig Clevenger

#35. A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.

Susie Clevenger

#36. How do I learn to speak
when silence is all I know?

Susie Clevenger

#37. I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over ... And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that

Craig Clevenger

#38. Foggy nights bring some comfort.
He can get lost in the mist
and there is no one to stare or question.

Susie Clevenger

#39. What they show tells you what they want to hide.

Craig Clevenger