Dealing With Ptsd Quotes & Sayings

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.

Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.

I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.

"You — Carol Ann Duffy

Even his hair seemed more startled than usual. — Stephanie Perkins

Phury nodded. And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat. — J.R. Ward

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. — Ernest Hemingway,

We all have special attributes that are of value to someone. Find your place of value. You are never useless. You just need to find your place. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues. — Edgar Winter

Because it has lived its life intensely
the parched grass still attracts the gaze of passers-by.
The flowers merely flower,
and they do this as well as they can.
The white lily, blooming unseen in the valley,
Does not need to explain itself to anyone;
It lives merely for beauty.
Man, however, cannot accept that 'merely'.

If tomatoes wanted to be melons,
they would look completely ridiculous.
I am always amazed
that so many people are concerned
with wanting to be what they are not;
what's the point of making yourself look ridicuolous?

You don't always have to pretend to be strong,
there's no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,
you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking,
cry if you need to,
it's good to cry out all your tears
(because only then will you be able to smile again). — Mitsuo Aida

Purr more, hiss less — Linda C. Marchman

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue. — William Shakespeare

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. — John Stuart Mill

We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned
honey marooned
on this bed for days. — Kelly Link

The little Lyman girl was the first time he'd slipped up in years. — S.K. Epperson

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! — Victor Hugo

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. — Rand Paul

I only wish to write. — Lailah Gifty Akita