#lee

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. ↗

— Evanescence

#evanescence #inspirational

Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed. Their reply was that although they had moved beyond that--from the person or event that inspired their words at that point in time--it doesn't mean someone listening to them wasn't in that. So? So what if heartache you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. It may be exactly what the person in the front row is feeling. What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now--that's why you write poetry. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#poetry #slammed #inspirational

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#comes #die #dying #man #man needs

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#sleep #life

You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal was never an option. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#my-love-lies-bleeding #life

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#life #present #sleep #waking-up #life

Jeez, we haven’t even slept together and already you don’t trust me.” “I’ve known you all your life not to mention the fact that my idiot sister is in the next room and when you two get together it’s like Laurel and Hardy do Denver. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#lee #life