mydrunkpoet

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories…they’re the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.”

“…and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”

“Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”

“Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance, ‘I feel I’ve known you so many years?’ ‘Because I like you,’ she said, ‘and I don’t want anything from you.”

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”

“Then I met you and unavoidably you were special.”

“Other loves still breathe deep inside me.”

“She was the kind of girl you’d want to spend your Sunday with. Because with some people, even running errands seems like an adventure.”

“I, with my romantic need and longing,”

“Wildly tender, and whimsical, talkative, paradoxically awkward,”