Shinji Moon Quotes

“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there's nothing but light when I see you.”

— Shinji Moon

There is a shipwreck between your ribs and it took eighteen years
for me to understand how to understand your kind of drowning.
There are people who cannot be held quietly. There are screams
that are never externalized. If I looked at the photo albums of your
past twenty years, all I would find are decibel meter graphs of
phone calls and the intensity of your silence as you sat
smoking cigarettes in the garage.
There is a shipwreck between your ribs. You are a box with
fragile written on it, and so many people have not handled you
with care.
And for the first time, I understand that I will never know
how to apologize for being
one of them.

— Shinji Moon

“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.”

— Shinji Moon

“Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about.”

— Shinji Moon

You will lie to everyone you love.
They will love you anyways.

— Shinji Moon

Dig yourself a ditch, six
feet deep, and bury everything that you've ever
said, everything that you've never
meant, and everything that has
burned you and left you with nothing
but ash

— Shinji Moon

“You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”

— Shinji Moon

“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel lozenges.
But metaphors come and metaphors go,
and not even seasons have the courtesy to stay till dawn.”

— Shinji Moon

“All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket.
All you need is someone on the other end of the map, thinking about the supple
curves of your body, to guide you to a home that stretches out for miles
and miles on end.”

— Shinji Moon

“You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will
realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.”

— Shinji Moon

“I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much
as I will drown everything you have inside.”

— Shinji Moon

“I don't want to know what your favorite color is
but I do want to know what color you bleed
when you're with me.”

— Shinji Moon

I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me.

— Shinji Moon

“And still,
Your mouth on my mouth
Is a thought as fresh as
Melting icicles away
With my breath”

— Shinji Moon

“I should've told you that you could rearrange continents with that smile of yours.”

— Shinji Moon

“Do you know how it hurts to touch you
knowing that in the morning I'll still wake up alone?”

— Shinji Moon

I will never fail to inflate my lungs for you when you're a hundred miles deep, heading headfirst towards a telephone pole - screaming - because you have pulled out all your own brakes.

— Shinji Moon

“O, how the body knows all
that language cannot say.”

— Shinji Moon

“You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with.”

— Shinji Moon

I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.

— Shinji Moon