The Poet X Quotes Novels & Stories

Phineas didn't look at him. Written across the white wood of the door, jagged and dripping, was a message scrawled in the guards' blood. The copper smell was thick enough to taste, a heavy weight in the air that made the lungs ache. He touches you again, and I burn the city. You are the only thing allowed to breathe in my world. "He’s insane," Xavier hissed, his hand going for the pistol at his small of his back. "I’m going to hunt him. I’m going to find where he’s nesting and I’m going to level the entire block. No one threatens me. No one touches my investments."

Every time my parents slapped me, busted my lips, or threw me in the cells for a mistake I didn't mean to make burned my soul. “Think of Loana. Come on. She was your best friend. You must have had great memories with her,” Xander's voice paved its way to my ears, trying to push through the darkness I was drowning in. “It hurts!” I screamed, digging my nails in his forearm. I didn't want to hurt him, but I couldn't control my actions. “I know. I know, but you can do it, yeah? Think of Loana. Think of her,” he kept repeating. It was so hard to find any source of light in that darkness. Just breathing was an effort I was not willing to exert.

My lip quivers when I sob my heart out, "XANDER! DON'T YOU DARE!" Soul continues to pull my sobbing form back. "Please do something! Please DO SOMETHING SOUL" I scream. "I can't! Xander would want me to protect you instead." This can't be happening. My feel as if I'm not getting enough air with how much air I am breathing in. Please this can't be real. THIS CAN'T BE REAL!!! Xander looks at me dead in the eye he nods at me and gives me a small smile. He links to my mind and recites the saying that his inmates created when one of them die..... May we meet again.

“Yes, I know freedom without power in poverty, and I don’t care. My freedom is worth ten times more than power, more than fear, more than anything you could ever offer me. Once there is freedom everything is possible” Xavier didn’t speak again. I guessed he was calculating his next move. The room felt hotter than a desert. It had become a war of fire and flesh, of wills and hearts. And I… was not backing down from my decision.

"I’m also very glad I met you, Xavier." They stood for a long time, watching the sky slowly swallow the moonlight. Below, the trees swayed gently, and inside the house, the sound of their children’s breathing became the most beautiful music that ever existed. The next morning, Xavier woke up early. He wrote something in his notebook, with calm handwriting: "Life is not about how much we achieve, but about how much love we leave in every step. I don’t know what lies ahead, but I do know one thing, I no longer walk alone."

I couldn't able to complete my sentence when, In a blink of an eye, Xavier grabbed my forearm pinning me harshly on the wall, making me winced in pain. A/P “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ~Anonymous

Larry muttered in a drunken tone. "Hey, shoeshiner! Get out of here! You're polluting the air!" Xavier said in front of his mother. "Oh, yeah? You are all insecure because you may have the money, but you don't have the brain. You bully kids that are better that are better than you, because you envy them! You want to destroy them so no one will be better than you are!"

We can take it from him since it wont be new to us. I don’t know what it is but her words spark something in me. I look around the space that we are in and my mind starts to race. Its all because light outshines the darkness. I rise to my feet as I spin on my heels. Xander is nothing but light. He radiates. I don’t radiate as bright but I still do shine. Its because it shows my part of the darkness. This is why my gold isn’t as bright as his.A growl behind us has me smirking. It looks like sleeping beauty is back on his feet.

That I like when he touches me, that I encourage him. It is why I always wake up in shame. Even if the few minutes of what he is doing feels like the best thing in the world. Mother likes to say, the sweetest poisons are also the most deadliest. I already know Xander will be the death of me. He has been once. I have to be smart to not give him a second chance. Who knows, this time he might make it permanent.

my heart breaks, knowing whatever I try, I can't remember even a piece of memory. "Don't be sorry love. I told you, one day, you will be able to remember everything again. I have faith in you. During those days that you were blind, we never gave up. We should not lose hope on this, I will do everything I can just for your memories to come back again." Xavier is my strength. He always pushes me and encourages me not to give up. "So, going back to that City of the Phoenix Flower, ahm... where is that?"