Rudy Francisco

“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.”

— Rudy Francisco

“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and…

— Rudy Francisco

“Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.”

— Rudy Francisco

“The word “repurpose” means to take an object and give it amnesia. It means to make something forget what it’s been trained…

— Rudy Francisco

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”

— Rudy Francisco

“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing…

— Rudy Francisco

“I hate you, but I still I miss you, and a part of me still loves you.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.”

— Rudy Francisco

“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”

— Rudy Francisco

“On May 26th, 2003, Aaron Ralston was hiking, a boulder fell on his right hand, he waited four days, he then amputated…

— Rudy Francisco

“She is my musician, and me, I’m her favorite song.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”

— Rudy Francisco

“I was told The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7 She picks the colors and the…

— Rudy Francisco

“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike. Scared, but reckless. With no training wheels or…

— Rudy Francisco

You see Ive written like a million poems hoping that somehow maybe someway youll jump out of the page and be closer…

— Rudy Francisco

“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”

— Rudy Francisco

“My definition of love is being robbed in an alley eight times in a row and hoping that there’s something about today…

— Rudy Francisco

“The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground”

— Rudy Francisco

“He sketches you as the antagonist and suddenly his transgressions become deleted scenes. He blames you for his sadness. And this is…

— Rudy Francisco

“If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping…

— Rudy Francisco

“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my…

— Rudy Francisco