Quotes for All
I’m still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can’t pay a doctor’s bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave … Read more
I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job … Read more
I don’t speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn’t need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don’t speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don’t want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal. … Read more
I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love … Read more
Marry me, he said. Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it. … Read more
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. Antonio Porchia
I can’t do this anymore, I cried, Why won’t you just leave me alone? Because you would never leave me. Alexandra Bracken
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
A. A. Milne
Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. I come and go as I please, you say, swift as a heartbeat. You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.
Rumi