Top 35 Rudy Francisco Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?”

— Rudy Francisco

2. “I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”

— Rudy Francisco

3. “Pour yourself into me and I will not let a drop of you hit the ground.”

— Rudy Francisco

4. “The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground.”

— Rudy Francisco

5. “Maybe this whole time, I already had the things I’ve been asking others to give me.”

— Rudy Francisco

6. “I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments. I hope there is something beautiful on the horizon that’s just as impatient as I am. Something so eager, it wants to meet me halfway. A moment that is diligently staring at its watch, trembling with nervousness, frustrated, and bursting at the seams, wondering what’s taking me so long to arrive.”

— Rudy Francisco

7. “I love you in a language that I don’t fully understand. In words that I haven’t found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.”

— Rudy Francisco

8. “Remember we are never given anything that we can’t handle. When the world crumbles around you, sometimes you gotta look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember that you are still here. The human heart, it beats approximately 4,000 times per hour. And each pulsin’ and each throbbin’ and each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words “you are still alive.”

— Rudy Francisco

9. “I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”

— Rudy Francisco

10. “Remember, every year two million people die of dehydration. So it doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. There’s water in the cup. Drink it and stop complaining.”

— Rudy Francisco

11. “Instructions Gather your mistakes, rinse them with honesty and self-reflection, let dry until you can see every choice and the regret becomes brittle, cover the entire surface in forgiveness, remind yourself that you are human and this too is a gift.”

— Rudy Francisco

12. “The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”

— Rudy Francisco

13. “I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.”

— Rudy Francisco

14. “Jim Crow may have left the nest but our streets are still covered in his feathers.”

— Rudy Francisco

15. “Why Did You Leave? Because you wouldn’t let me love both of us at the same time.”

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16. “Alternatives to “Bae” The one who wins all of the arguments, the keeper of the remote, the girl who turns my stomach into a butterfly nest, the pink Starburst, the one I will always choose first no matter what else is in the pack, the red Kool-Aid, the right amount of sugar, the pulp, the part that makes the juice seem real.”

— Rudy Francisco

17. “Of all the things I could’ve been, I’m so glad to be this. Thank god I didn’t actually become who I pretended to be, back when I had no idea who I was.”

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18. “Five: Cupid is irresponsible, and I’m tired of him using me for target practice.”

— Rudy Francisco

19. “I’m just sorry that she had to be your fortune cookie. Broken so you could learn a lesson you already should’ve known.”

— Rudy Francisco

20. “I promise I will love you as if it’s the only thing I’ve ever done correctly.”

— Rudy Francisco

21. “They now know solitude does not scare people like us.”

— Rudy Francisco

22. “I’m learning that everything doesn’t always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.”

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23. “Now, preschools are having Active Shooter Drills. Now, more high schools are installing metal detectors. Now, we’re talking about giving guns to the teachers so they can protect the students, but that’s like burning all the trees in the spring so the forest fire won’t take them in the summer. America, this is climate change.”

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24. “I take my compliments the same way I take my coffee. I don’t drink coffee.”

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25. “My hobbies include: editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”

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26. “They now know solitude does not scare people like us and our absence is something that we are not afraid to give to those who call for it.”

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27. “Youth promises us immortality, but doesn’t have the means to uphold its end of the bargain.”

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28. “Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”

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29. “My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.”

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30. “I wonder how long it will take the planet to tell us we can’t live here and the locks are changed.”

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31. “Love is clumsy, and my heart refuses to wear a helmet.”

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32. “He sketches you as the antagonist and suddenly his transgressions become deleted scenes. He blames you for his sadness. And this is how the wolf cries boy.”

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33. “The most destructive instruments can still create a melody worth dancing to.”

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34. “If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care about you.”

— Rudy Francisco

35. “You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”

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36. “How beautiful it is to grind yourself into sand, offer the grain of you to anyone willing to listen. Hoping they will carry your debris into places you’ll never go.”

— Rudy Francisco