Kelli Russell Agodon Quotes

#1. I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#2. I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness

Kelli Russell Agodon

#3. Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#4. In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred

Kelli Russell Agodon

#5. Everything man needs is in the world.

Idries Shah

#6. We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Maybe I'm still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#8. If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#9. Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#10. A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where's the band?
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't
have fun.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#11. Know there's beauty in the words you leave out

Kelli Russell Agodon

#12. A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper
hats, new couples falling from couches and love-
seats - the pleasure remembered,
never the regret.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#13. I don't believe we should carry backup
plans in life's suitcase
they're too easy to unpack
like living a life in yoga pants,
so comfortable our hips spread
into new timezones ...

Kelli Russell Agodon

#14. boredom is the impetus to creativity.

Tsh Oxenreider

#15. When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.

Tyler Oakley

#16. As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art?

Kelli Russell Agodon

#17. Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of -

Kelli Russell Agodon

#18. We laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.

Melissa De La Cruz

#19. For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#20. To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,

Kelli Russell Agodon

#21. I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#22. We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#23. And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#24. There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

Khaled Mashal

#25. Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#26. I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#27. Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#28. Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#29. She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#30. the moon is just another kind of clock

Kelli Russell Agodon

#31. I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

Aaron Yoo