22 Quotes by Carolyn Riker

I want to sleep next to youin that curled fashionof a commaor in quotationsthat repeatI love youin whispersthe weight offine cottonand wrinkles areour known secretsbecause age has reacheda stage where wordsare in our eyes andfrom our heart.

It takes a lover to show how vulnerable can speak the tender inside of real truths.

Tears and poetry are the closest language to all things divine, unspoken, spoken and felt.

Hearts mend and expand and break and give something of ourselves as we nest into the gifting of our dearest self.

For right now, let’s talk softly to each other and we’ll become a love song.

It takes a writer many lifetimes to story a book.

To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We lower our masks and see a celestial inner being. It is our full self -- the supernova as well as the black holes. Our fears and doubts. Our anger and joy...This is love.

Light isn't always buoyant and shadows aren't always despair; yet both, I believe, are limitless in lessons that they share.

I'll tell you a story, far, far from here where blades of grass are fluent in sentient knowledge and trees are a mandala of prayer.