John Mark Green Quotes

Your transformation will begin the moment you stop worrying for someone rise to rescue you.

~ John Mark Green

We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?

~ John Mark Green

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

~ John Mark Green

Rusted FlowersFrom her heart’stear-salted soil,rusted flowers grew.A serrated beauty;wounding all those who bent near.

~ John Mark Green

Sometimes poetry is a way of finding beauty in the chaos, a flower growing in ruins of love's wreckage.

~ John Mark Green

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

~ John Mark Green

Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

~ John Mark Green

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

~ John Mark Green

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.

~ John Mark Green

His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spentout on the road, but still capableof bringing forth beautiful music.

~ John Mark Green

I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers.

~ John Mark Green

Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore.

~ John Mark Green

She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.

~ John Mark Green

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

~ John Mark Green

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

~ John Mark Green

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

~ John Mark Green

When life gets dark, that's when stars appear among us. Shine bright, beautiful ones. Throw light from your burning hearts.

~ John Mark Green

When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.

~ John Mark Green

And if we never visit Paris, that's okay. Your heart is my exotic destination every day.

~ John Mark Green

The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole.

~ John Mark Green

Within every heart's Winter sleeps the promise of Spring.

~ John Mark Green

You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love.

~ John Mark Green

Who was it that hurt you,stole light out of your eyes?Cut a hole in your heartand let the love drain dry?Who was so damn careless,to leave you with such scars?Where will you find healing?Right here, within my arms.

~ John Mark Green

With rough hands and gentle heart, I'll seduce you. You will feel my power and surrender to desire.

~ John Mark Green

Please thaw my permafrost heart.

~ John Mark Green

Who was it that hurt you, stole the light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and let the love drain dry? Who was so damn careless, to leave you with such scars? Where will you find healing? Right here, within my arms.

~ John Mark Green

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

~ John Mark Green

Do you dare journey into the wild places of your heart?

~ John Mark Green

Even when your heart is blue, I'll safely hold it. I really don't mind these indigo-stained hands.

~ John Mark Green

UnsightlyIf I strip my heart naked, you'll see all the unsightly scars, I'm afraid.

~ John Mark Green

When did your flight plan become a holding pattern, always circling happiness, but never allowed to land? Distracted by in-flight movies, drinks, and snacks, until the fuel runs out. Is this really all there is? Is this what you want out of life?

~ John Mark Green

Let's burn our masks at midnightand 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 colorswe somehow failed to notice before.

~ John Mark Green

Your life will consist of a series of times when you must reinvent yourself. We desperately cling to the idea that things should stay the same, but life and growth are about change. Don't mistake the end of a chapter for the end of the story. Lean into the plot changes, and follow your character arc. If you are in a dark part of your tale, know that this night will not last forever, but you must be brave enough to see it through. This is not the end, oh no my friend. Take courage. Better things await you.

~ John Mark Green

Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.

~ John Mark Green

Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses.

~ John Mark Green

Everyone needs someone who can show them what heaven looks like.

~ John Mark Green

When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.

~ John Mark Green

And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.

~ John Mark Green

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

~ John Mark Green

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered

~ John Mark Green