Deanne Patterson

“Would you kiss me?"

"...yeah”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“I ain't a lover, but I want to love all your crazy imperfections,
I ain't a diver, but I want to dive into your deep warm emotions,
I ain't a reader, but I want to read messages send by your eyes,
I ain't a skylark, but I want to sing for your mesmerizing smile,
I ain't a gardener, but I want to plant seeds of ecstasy in your heart,
I ain't a writer, but I want to write about how special you're.”
― Hareem Ch, Breaking a Pledge

“And so the space
Of my still consciousness
Is full of gilded snow,

The which, no cat has eyes enough
To see the brightness of.

— Ezra Pound, from “Middle-Aged,” Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1912–22. Edited by Harriet Monroe. (Chicago, 1912–22)”
― Ezra Pound

“The shore doesn't belong to anyone," muttered Queenie. "It's God's earth. God made the land, and He can break it up all again and take it back if He wants.”
― Danielle Thorne, A Buccaneer's Deal