“The truth was, he had no girlfriend. Everyone was his girlfriend. This was his theory--float and drift. Be in love with everyone you see. The heart is a bucket without a lid. Maybe he had read it in a play. But it seemed to work.” LoveHeartEmotionGirlfriends Book:There Is No Long Distance Now Source: There Is No Long Distance Now
“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.” WayWantMindHeartSoulSpectacularPulleys Book:Words under the words: selected poems Source: Words under the words: selected poems
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.” WorldHeartReadyMoonMirrors Book:Red Suitcase: Poems Source: Red Suitcase: Poems
“For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.” PeopleBelieveHeartSaidStillsDreamWould BeBlackMemoriesGriefSkyTearsBirdBuiltTownsMovedParksGood PlaceScarvesAtlasMortar Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
