First kiss Quote by Olena Kalytiak Davis

“[...] Pacing from room to room and in each window a different version of a framed woman unable to rest, set against a sky…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“I thought: please don’t grow familiar. I think I said it out loud: Please don’t let me love you that horrible way.”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice.”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“[...] what doesn't begin with love and death and end in loneliness?”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“When it's this windy doesn't it seem impossible to grow old?”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“Remember the year I stopped eating apples? Remember the summer I kept bringing home abandoned chairs? A lucid Vincent wrote to his brother: I…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“The Gauze of Flowers, A Love Poem” Remember when we couldn’t name it because it was a meadow wild with tulips, both bright as…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“The sky has stopped offering you reasons to live and your heart is the rock you threw through each window of what's deserted you,…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“O my Love sent me a lusty list, Did not compare me to a summer's day Wrote not the beauty of mine eyes But…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting. O, to see you again. Covered in spring.”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis