Maria Dahvana Headley Quotes

They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

all most people wish for is more, wishing forever until tongues are parched and hearts are tired of beating. Love is a kind of wish. Wishing for love is the same as wishing for more wishes. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

We are made of awkward. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

We're commuter wives. These are our commuter lives. We're capable of carrying alcoholic husbands from the kitchen to the bathroom in a fireman's grip. Between trains, we train to fight with enemies we haven't met yet, battling against punching bags, leaping like the world is made of stone walls and we're storming them.
There's another version of commuting of course, as in to commute a sentence.
This is our sentence, these suburbs, the train that does not stretch to meet them ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks? ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Once upon a time, he was the child of some other mother, and his beloved was a wonder of the world. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

There's more than one path to immortality. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn't a dream of flying. It's a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind.
I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her own, through 20 years of cramped sublets, high-rise palaces, writer's colonies, and boyfriend's vans, is a hilarious, hopeful, and penetrating must-read. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out? ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

But who's ever safe? Down below us are the kind of people who walk armed into churches and movie theaters and through libraries, blast fevers into federal buildings, and build bombs out of things they bought cheap at a hardware store. What kind of myth is it, that people like them are keeping the rest of us safe? ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Children are better at feeding monsters than adults are. They don't have the burden of suspicion. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

The world isn't large enough for heroes and monsters at once. There's too much danger of confusion between the two categories. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Every life starts with the same beginning and ends with the same end. The rest is the story, even if you don't understand it, even if you aren't sure which parts are true and which parts are your brain trying to make sense out of smoke. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette ash. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

No one needs to see us for us to exist. No one needs to love us for us to exist. The sky is filled with light.

The world is full of wonders. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Dogs can tell how many times a person's heart beats, how many breaths they've taken, whether they're sick, whether they're dying. Dogs can find the secrets their people don't know, tip them over, spill them onto the ground, roll in them ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Wonders have been born before. Sometimes they've been worshipped. There've been new things over and over, and some creatures have fallen groaning to the ground and others have learned to fly. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Willa maintains a vigil. Certain tasks are relegated to women. Mourning, staring into the wastes, waiting for no one to surface.

It's a white man who's missing. Usually, that would be enough to keep it in the news, but eight days in, the police release their grief in an official report. The art of blame-casting is a lesser sorcery. History is written in sand, and a broom changes everything. Every woman knows the art of covering up a mess: a carpet, a dustpan, bleach on the boards. What do you do with the cleaning supplies of the world? Use them to wash the blood away, and grind the bones into bread. Swallow the confessions whispered in bed.

If events don't make sense, a story grows to cover up the confusion. Motives and mistakes. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

It's water from beneath the mountain, and its full of of the taste of bones and rocks. She's bought five cases of bottled to keep from having to serve this, even in ice-cube format. There's something awful about it. It feels full of ghosts ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Maybe every monster is a miracle meant to change the world. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Cash register. Army surplus, my son wrapped up in my coat. He was just a baby then. I thought I might be up here on this mountain for no reason. Maybe everything I thought was wrong in the world wasn't wrong at all, Maybe he'd be safe here. Maybe I wasn't just every mother ever, panicked, looking at her child and seeing all the ways he might get hurt. He was mine, and I wanted someone to tell me my son was beautiful, to tell me he'd grow into a man. I didn't wan't to be alone forever, with no one to help me, and no one but me to help him. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Maybe love is just that, and only that. The choice you make. And so, you choose to love. You choose to give it all up, to surrender your scared self and live in this mystery. Jik ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Some days I'm just sixteen, and sixteen isn't what I want to be. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

You hold no horrors for me ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I'm this thing that emerged from it, some kind of miserable Phoenix. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]]. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Like we're here, and at the same time, in outer space. Which of course, we are. We're all untethered, all flying around in the dark, the same as Mars and Venus, the same as the stars. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Vertigo, that's where I am. Pi wants to take over, but I don't let it. Looping wants to occur, but I remain sentient, and I don't do any of the various forms of out-freaking I want to do. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I think of the note.

I want to say me too.

I want to say I know.

I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too.

I want to say that. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

And there's the loudest sound I've ever heard and the brightest white I've ever seen, and I'm made of it, I'm-
I'm made of light
I'm made of heat
And I'm flying ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.'
Am I dead?
'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Adults want to talk about death way less than people my age do. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away. Big bag over the shoulder, climbing up the chimney carrying everything in a person's life, and taking off, eight-reindeered, from the roof. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Is this what love is? That you can see each other, even in the dark? ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ... ~ Maria Edgeworth

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think. ~ Jose Maria Aznar

Religion of Blue Circle
To bring and give a lesson,
is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.
Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 29, 2016
Amen
God ~ Petra Hermans

One of the effects of being crazily, obsessively in love is that it dulls your senses, your capacity for perception, till you no longer notice what is happening around you. ~ Maria Duenas

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture ~ Lydia Maria Francis Child

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'. ~ Stephen King

A real good leader is faithful
to a special gift of a near-death experience
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 8, 2016
Babaji ~ Petra Hermans

Then he did something that I never expected; he kissed me. It was like the running water: soft and like a thunder. ~ Maria Vermisoglou

Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here ~ John Boyne

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal. ~ Maria Cantwell

You know you're a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white. ~ Maria Murnane

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders. ~ Maria Bartiromo

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. ~ Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. ~ Maria Monk

No hope, is worse than fear. ~ Maria V. Snyder

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Living too long in New York does that to a girl, gives her the false sense that the world is full of interesting people. Or at least people who are crazy in an interesting way. At ~ Maria Semple

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. ~ Maria Montessori

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.) ~ Maria Grazia Swan

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language! ~ Maria Canals Barrera

But this story? This one's mine. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; ~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be. ~ Maria Semple

As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day. ~ Maria Sharapova

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!" ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything! ~ Maria Valverde

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof. ~ Sara Sheridan

No, love. You're the only one who has caused me to do the oddest things. You have truly poisoned me. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Some people will never ever know
what my Birthday means to God.
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
October 3, 2016 ~ Petra Hermans

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. ~ Maria Callas

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts. ~ Anna Maria Chavez

To understand the value of the middle
the golden middle path
you'll have to know your own golden rules.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
November 10, 2016 ~ Petra Hermans

I'll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Now we would wander around like strangers in those landscapes of our youth. We have been consumed in the fires of reality, we perceive differences only in the way tradesmen do, and we see necessities like butchers. We are free of care no longer – we are terrifying indifferent. We might be present in that world, but would we be alive in it?
We are like children who have been abandoned and we are as experienced as old men, we are coarse, unhappy and superficial – I think that we are lost ~ Erich Maria Remarque

You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase. ~ Maria Semple

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke