53 Quotes by Laurie Perez

Frivolous diamonds expect you to bend and squint and seek refraction from greedy elusive facets keepingall their vibrant secrets hiddenin the hard chisel of war-born crystal.

For a moment, he felt like he was sucked into an aileron roll, stopped dead halfway through and dangled sideways above the ground with his left ear facing sky.“Are you alright?” Kate asked.“Yes.” He rubbed his hands through his hair, then changed his mind. “No. I’m not alright at all.

It’s the job of the soul to stretch out across the body of the desert and touch, without skin or fingers or nerves, the hidden creek that wets our knowledge of who we are. Who we are before and after. Who we are when we’re alone and a goddess looks into our eyes, looks into our dreams and says, yes. I see you clearly.

I used to think I was in love with Mia because she was in love with me. Now when I watch her strutting down the runway, twisting and flouncing the way her mother trained her, I know she’s just a human coat hanger. A wired body I hold late at night and try to fit into.

Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light – given a voice.

I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend...

Step into the center of the center of the center – right into your Now – and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating – constant, in the center of it all.

Each cell within its atom is a raw, formless idea that exists beyond mortality. It is the wild state constantly creating your world, the one word in a collective equation that is you becoming written from nothing into something – and so it knows, ultimately, annihilation is an essential instrument of becoming new to all that can be known.