53 Quotes by Ada Limon

Every time I’m in an airport,I think I should drasticallychange my life: Kill the kid stuff,start to act my numbers, set fireto the clutter and creep belowthe radar like an escaped caninesneaking along the fence line.I’d be cable-knitted to the hilt,beautiful beyond buying, believein the maker and fix my problemswith prayer and property.Then, I think of you, homewith the dog, the field fullof purple pop-ups—we’re smalland flawed, but I want to bewho I am, going whereI’m going, all over again.

Caring for each other is a form of radical survival that we don't always take into account.

Isn't it funny? How the cold numbs everything but grief.If we could light up the room with pain, we'd be such a glorious fire.

If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

What I didn't like was how people talked to menow that I was no longer single; they were nicer.Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest. Her job, her work, was to let the machine of survival break down, make the factory fail,to know that this war was winless,to know that she would singlehandedlydestroy us all.

I haven't given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even

I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing in the face of disaster. Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.