You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENTo hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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Can someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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