Quotable Authors Quotes

“She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone

“I love listening to the sound of your heart beating, the comforting memory of a cuddling womb.”
― Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

“Our brains are our command centers.

Every thought and belief pattern we hold to be true within our core is accepted and implemented by our bodies.”
― Adiela Akoo

“Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It's revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling”
― Adiela Akoo

“The World comes
like a lover, courting.
But a seeker only sees
a hunter, circling its prey.”
― Adiela Akoo

“and I pondered this curiously crazy life and the things I failed to grasp as a girl but thought I understood now as a softer, wiser woman I thought about life and death… I thought about tonight’s dinner menu too…”
― Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

“A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power... never underestimate the ripple effect”
― Adiela Akoo

“Someone mentioned your name today,
Took me down memory lane,
To a time very much younger,
A time more pure, more sane.”
― Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

“Burn the bad news,
I don't want it!
Give me instead SOUL FOOD,
from within I want to be lit!”
― Adiela Akoo

“I AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world.... one poem at a time”
― Adiela Akoo

“A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power”
― Adiela Akoo

“I AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world.... one heart at a time...”
― Adiela Akoo