11 Quotes & Sayings By Virginia Petrucci

Virginia Petrucci is author of The Business of Writing , a daily writing practice. She has written several books, including Writing the Breakout Novel, The Business Of Writing , and How to Write a Book Proposal . Her work has appeared in Writer's Digest, Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Guide, Writer's Digest Book of Lists, Writer's Chronicle, and other publications. A former English major at the University of Arizona, she lives with her husband in Tucson.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to...
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It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. Virginia Petrucci
What bothers me most about my teeth is that they...
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What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high. Virginia Petrucci
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Numbered are the daysof hunger stricken straysa woman's curving tastea paper police state. Virginia Petrucci
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You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don’t want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes. Virginia Petrucci
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Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, and not asking why. Virginia Petrucci
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Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy. Virginia Petrucci
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I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't. Virginia Petrucci
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My mind: a thousand hungry daughters, my harlot heritage. Marbles: lost, no rescue search. Your heart: blooming thorns, and a stolen grocery cart. Virginia Petrucci
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You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive. Virginia Petrucci
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You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans. Virginia Petrucci