Paige Lewis > Quotes

“I feel as if I’m on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit, and I can’t find the hole. I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Lately, I’ve been feeling betrayed by names: the king cobra isn’t a cobra, the electric eel isn’t an eel, and it turns out my anger was fear all along.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I wonder if we name storms because naming is the only power we’re left with.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Tell me, how do I steady my gaze when everything I want is motion?”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“A miracle is anything that God forgot
to forbid.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“If this world is a plucked violin string, am I part of its sound or its stillness?”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“It’s nothing. The sun, with its plasma plumes and arching heat, is five million miles closer to Earth than it was in July, and we are still alive.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“As king, it’s my duty to be one with the universe, but I hate how the galaxies hover over me, expecting mistakes.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“...then we'll journey
until we find the world in which we both fit.
And when the path grows too dark to see even
the bright parts of me, have faith in the sound
of my voice. I'm here. I'm still the one leading.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“He makes me feel stupid and it’s hard to sleep knowing so little about everything”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I’m too busy searching for
the stone that best represents me—it’s
not the blue one specked with God bits,

or the ear-shaped obsidian. It’s
not anything polished—and I think
about how hard it is for me to believe

in the first Adam because if Adam
had the power to name everything,
everything would be named Adam.

Then I think, that’s a pretty smart thought.
I don’t say it to my friend. I don’t say it
to the magnolia women. Do they still

count, these hours I’ve spent on my
own? Do they still count if I’m saving
all of my shiniest thoughts for you?”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“More than anything, I want
the ability to respond perfectly

to tragedy—like when you said
you didn’t enjoy the sound of my

voice, I should have sung louder”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Still, I try to hold onto nothing
for fear of being crushed by what can be taken
because sometimes not even our mouths belong to us.”
― Paige Lewis , Space Struck

“Do they still / count, these hours I've spent on my / own? Do they still count if I'm saving / all of my shiniest thoughts for you?”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I want to find you a peach so ripe that even your breath would bruise it.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“We are only remembered as cruel when what we harm does not die quickly”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Sometimes it’s hard to tell the built from the grown.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“I am the vice president of panic and the president is missing.”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Now, I demand a love that is stupid and beautiful, like a pilot turning off her engines mid-flight to listen for rain on the wings”
― Paige Lewis

“If this world is a plucked violin string, am I a part of its sound or its stillness?”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck