Topaz Winters Quotes

we are holding hands in the barrel of a gun. they pull the trigger, but when she is kissing me only cherry blossoms come out.

there is no story where two girls get a happy ending. she tells me fine, we’ll write it ourselves

The wildness of this life grows & grows & continues to astound me with how large it is, how little I know of it.

Sixteen and in love when our existence is taboo and still I choose you. I choose you.

Ask any woman & she’ll tell you why Eve bit into that apple. Why she chose the universe instead of you.

In the story that matters, we’re sixteen and flames are the only centre of gravity. In the story that matters, we choose each other anyway. We choose each other, curse after curse, night after night, fire after fire. Sixteen and in love when our existence is taboo and still I choose you. I choose you. Sixteen and changelings, and I choose you in broken wings, I choose you in burning stakes, magnet eyes, infinite amnesia, I choose you out of untried hearts and endless ashes, I choose you. I choose you. In the story that matters, in the story that exists, two girls are running, the fires forget how to burn, and always, always, I choose you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose or topaz or the arrow of carnations … I love you as certain dark things are to be loved … in secret … between the shadow and the soul.

You've got the drivers license and I've got the poetry, so isn't this enough for superstition?

She loves me this many temples. She loves me this much hellfire.

Look at her. Tell me that girl is not a song of burning. Look at her and tell me her eyes are not a housefire waiting to happen.

Anything is yours if you swallow it

If that mouth is not holy then God never spoke. How much skin, how much yearning exists here, in this space where nothing is less than anything else?

Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal—Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. “Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent topaz and ruby at four o’clock; cold and shabby at six.