Limon Quotes

#1. Mine, he declared.
Never, she returned.
His mouth moved to her ear and he murmured, We'll see.

Kristen Ashley

#2. No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

Ada Limon

#3. Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.

Ada Limon

#4. Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.

Ada Limon

#5. His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind those birds of flame.
I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.

Ada Limon

#7. Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Robert Browning

#8. One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.

Graciela Limon

#9. I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

Jose Limon

#10. My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

Ada Limon

#11. Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

Joel Fuhrman

#12. Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

Ada Limon

#13. As the cold wind blows and the leaves start to fall, I am reminded that there is no renewal without the passing away that punctuates all things in a human life.

Heidi Barr

#14. I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.

Ada Limon

#15. Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,

Ada Limon

#16. I wanted to be a hummingbird.
It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always
to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes.
Sometimes though, the thought exhausts me and
I want to be a slow horse, a tennis shoe.

Ada Limon

#17. It'll be George Michael all over again," Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off "Carless Whisper" whenever it comes on.

Sophie Kinsella

#18. There are so many people who've come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Ada Limon

#19. Think crucial hanging.
Think crayon orange.
There is one low, leaning
heart-shaped globe left
and dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less.

Ada Limon

#20. The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Angela Carter

#21. Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

Jose Limon

#22. What I didn't like was how people talked to me
now that I was no longer single; they were nicer.
Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,
like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

Ada Limon

#23. I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

Ada Limon

#24. People have done this before, but not us.

Ada Limon

#25. Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

Ada Limon

#26. There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.

This land and I are rewilding.

Ada Limon

#27. If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

Jose Limon

#28. But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who still had a next. See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest.

Ada Limon

#29. If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon

#30. Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Ada Limon

#31. I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon

#32. I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.

Ada Limon

#33. In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#34. Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about.

John Limon

#35. ...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.

Ada Limon