#spoken

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#broadest #corresponded #dr #except #her

And as for romance? Well, I want that too. I want to fall asleep next to you, 100 times a night, so I can know you 100 times better before we hit the day light. And despite all of this, I also want amnesia so I can relive each kiss with a perfect newness that leaves me smashed in the arms of rapture. I want the sky to fracture under the impossible weight of an apology because I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I want so much. I'm sorry that I'm using "I'm sorry" as a crutch to lean on for so long but if you sing me that song of sweet logic again then I promise to make the effort to stand on my own. There is a reason that our hearts are more like a muscle and less like a bone. I've known so many people who've have grown up flexing in front of mirrors and falling for their own reflection as if that's adequate but that's bullshit. Because we only get now until the time we go and if they've only got time to love themselves then nobody is going to be around to hear the sound of their heartbeat echo. So lady, don't expect an apology when I tell you I'm only held together by a heart that pumps blue, it's the strongest muscle in my body and I'm flexing it for you ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#spoken-word #love

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#being #between #charts #connection #feel

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#been #english #haven #i #months

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. ↗

— James Mill

#actions #character #considered #deserves #every

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

#i #outspoken

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#believe #believes #course #damned #does

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#apology #life-quotes #self #truth #unspoken