Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

- Dean Young

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

- Dean Young

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

- Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel …

- Dean Young

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

- Dean Young

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

- Dean Young

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

- Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobste…

- Dean Young

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that i…

- Dean Young