I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

— John Mark Green

I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.

— John Mark Green

I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.

— John Mark Green

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

— John Mark Green

I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart.

— John Mark Green

I want to hold you close, skin on skin, and let our heartbeats have a conversation.

— John Mark Green

I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.

— John Mark Green

Let's burn our masks at midnight and as flickering flames ascend, under the witness of star-clouds, let us vow to reclaim our true selves. Done with hiding and weary of lying, we'll reconcile without and within. Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns, we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn;blinking at the blazing, wondrous colors we somehow failed to notice before.

— John Mark Green

Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so wrong, we still managed to meet at the perfect moment. Almost as if by some plan which we were unaware of.

— John Mark Green

My heart had been a darkened room for so very long, but then you found the light switch.

— John Mark Green