The Anatomy of Being
Shinji Moon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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 that there's nothing but light when I see you.”
“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.”
“You will lie to everyone you love. They will love you anyways.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Let the word in and sooner or later people will see the oceans pouring out of you. You'll walk down the street and someone will mistake you for the sky. You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”
“I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much as I will drown everything you have inside.”
“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.”
“I should've told you that you could rearrange continents with that smile of yours.”
“You, with your hands full of Earth and your head full of rainfall. How many hearts do you hold in your own?”
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Book Keywords:
lit, love, shinji-moon, romance, poetry
