Best 21 quotes of Kelli Russell Agodon on MyQuotes

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

A friend comes over with a Ouija board. It spells out: Bourbon. Where’s the band? Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streets not knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.

I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

I don’t believe we should carry backup plans in life’s suitcase— they’re too easy to unpack like living a life in yoga pants, so comfortable our hips spread into new timezones...

If you think you are the mermaid, think again. You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat, trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

in the corner of the painting of success the signature is blurred

I wonder if I might be lonelier if I didn't have loneliness

Like the kite that caught up to the sky, painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.

...look up and see the madness organized in the stars.

Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Sometimes darkness is the beauty I am made of—

the moon is just another kind of clock

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary. We must hold the blood- red heart and no be disappointed when others look away.

We must lice with our hearts in our hands - like Mary. We must hold the blood- red heart and no be disappointed when others look away.

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness —but each scar is a sign your system is working.