John Nieto

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
-Kavita Ramdas

"But most of all, you want to get drunk off the taste of them. Lips on lips. Drunk off the night, and the whiskey. The secrets, the laughter. Drunk off the idea that you didn’t have to be anything other than yourself." -TKoW

"Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because; I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don't want it to; it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them." -Chuck Palahniuk

"So called ‘late-bloomers’ get a bad rap. Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword- it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but it also makes them more susceptible to life’s pains. Good thing we aren’t being penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines." -Jeff Brown

"Derek...have you ever thought that even if I am Satan, and an adulterous bitch, that I still might be the love of your life?" -Addison Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy

Letter Composed During a 

Lull in the Fighting

I tell her I love her like not killing

or ten minutes of sleep

beneath the low rooftop wall

on which my rifle rests.

I tell her in a letter that will stink,

when she opens it,

of bolt oil and burned powder

and the things it says.

I tell her how Private Bartle says, offhand,

that war is just us

making little pieces of metal

pass through each other.

-Kevin Powers