The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
NICOLE LYONSI swear if I were to rip myself open, it wouldn’t be blood that poured out of me, it would be him.
More Nicole Lyons Quotes
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I like you here, between commas, where the only thing you can break now, is my lines.
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I will not force a pretty smile upon my face to please eyes that no longer see me.
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Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.
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The tide has pulled the storm from my soul again. But in all that is right or wrong and pure, there is you, and your stunning ability to blur the lines and just be.
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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
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One day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.
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When I told you that I hadn’t been broken before; it wasn’t a fucking challenge.
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I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
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I have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
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Whatever it is that stirs your soul listen to that. Everything else is just noise.
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I could lose myself in you or die blissfully, trying.
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I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.
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Oh my darling, you mustn’t fill up on memories alone, there is heartache and regret yet to be served.
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She tasted like wildflowers; crushed, wet wild flowers carried in sticky palms through farmers’ fields, just before dawn.
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I think you were my taste of heaven after a lifetime of eating hell.
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