39 Quotes by Kelli Russell Agodon

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

A friend comes over with a Ouija board.It spells out: Bourbon. Where’s the band?Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Even a small amount of nectar is a greater sum than none.

Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our haloes.

...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.