Shinji Quotes

#1. You,
with your hands full of Earth and your head full of
rainfall. How many hearts do you hold in your own? - Author: Shinji Moon

#2. I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there's nothing but light when I see you. - Author: Shinji Moon

#3. We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings. - Author: Shinji Moon

#4. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between. - Author: Shinji Moon

#5. O, how the body knows all
that language cannot say. - Author: Shinji Moon

#6. Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about. - Author: Shinji Moon

#7. You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with. - Author: Shinji Moon

#8. I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much
as I will drown everything you have inside. - Author: Shinji Moon

#9. You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will
realize that nowhere seems like home anymore. - Author: Shinji Moon

#10. Dig yourself a ditch, six
feet deep, and bury everything that you've ever
said, everything that you've never
meant, and everything that has
burned you and left you with nothing
but ash - Author: Shinji Moon

#11. All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket.
All you need is someone on the other end of the map, thinking about the supple
curves of your body, to guide you to a home that stretches out for miles
and miles on end. - Author: Shinji Moon

#12. People change and people keep change and we keep paying ticket fines and hoping that that means something close to love, and I'm bankrupt from missing you. - Author: Shinji Moon

#13. Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel lozenges.
But metaphors come and metaphors go,
and not even seasons have the courtesy to stay till dawn. - Author: Shinji Moon

#14. I should've told you that you could rearrange continents with that smile of yours. - Author: Shinji Moon

#15. I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me. - Author: Shinji Moon

#16. You will lie to everyone you love.
They will love you anyways. - Author: Shinji Moon

#17. I love you for how human you are. - Author: Shinji Moon

#18. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra. - Author: Shinji Moon

#19. Everything in this word exists to wear you down. - Author: Tite Kubo

#20. Underneath the moonlight,
we laid and laughed
like run-on sentences, kissed like ellipses, and
you held me so close that I wear my bones down smooth
against
the grain of your skin. - Author: Shinji Moon

#21. I will never fail to inflate my lungs for you when you're a hundred miles deep, heading headfirst towards a telephone pole - screaming - because you have pulled out all your own brakes. - Author: Shinji Moon

#22. I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes. - Author: Shinji Moon

#23. I want to take long romantic walks up your arm with my lips.
I wanna picnic on the arc of your neck and sneak a bottle of wine
in a thermos with you and get stoned
somewhere on the mossy side of your ribs. - Author: Shinji Moon

#24. Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition. - Author: Andy Cole

#25. I wonder how it is that you, you are just a handful of billion of cells. - Author: Shinji Moon

#26. I musn't run away. - Author: Hideaki Anno

#27. You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed. - Author: Shinji Moon

#28. We make believe that even our tongues are bulletproof, as if we are stronger than what these fragile bones can take. - Author: Shinji Moon

#29. Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra. - Author: Shinji Moon

#30. Do you know how it hurts to touch you
knowing that in the morning I'll still wake up alone? - Author: Shinji Moon

#31. He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea's great tides. It was doubtless because nature itself satisfied his need that Shinji felt no particular lack of music in his everyday life. - Author: Yukio Mishima

#32. And still,
Your mouth on my mouth
Is a thought as fresh as
Melting icicles away
With my breath - Author: Shinji Moon

#33. I don't want to know what your favorite color is
but I do want to know what color you bleed
when you're with me. - Author: Shinji Moon