No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
Sarah Kay
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
“Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.”
“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her”
“I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.”
“How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.”
“I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet”
“Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other”
“There was no secret I did not tell him, there was no moment we did not share. We didn't grow up, we grew in; like ivy wrapping, molding each other into perfect yins and yangs”
“Hands learn. More than minds do.”
“You can only fit so many words into a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
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Book Keywords:
colour, love, innocence, poetry
