Yes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
SCHUYLERMeet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
More Schuyler Quotes
-
-
Some mornings, I like to live like a secret; wake as quietly as I can, slip out of bed without so much as a wrinkle.
SCHUYLER -
I want to wade into the water on the sidewalk, crawl out of this feeling without giving it a name. Take a lighter to love’s sticky edges so its sadness isn’t caught in my throat.
SCHUYLER -
This does not have to be a hard life to love. There is not enough time to let it stray too far from my hands.
SCHUYLER -
Please come here, but not too close.
SCHUYLER -
I still know the fabric of where I begin and end.
SCHUYLER -
There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
SCHUYLER -
In a dream, my fingertips pulse. I’ll be patient in my blooming. In a dream, I let time pass through open hands.
SCHUYLER -
I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
SCHUYLER -
I’m writing about moving again, and when I write about moving, I really mean beginning. I’m beginning again.
SCHUYLER -
I know I could be an astronomer of this swooning.
SCHUYLER -
My love lives in my cheeks – gives me away by the first smile. all the lines from years spent laughing, warm with extra freckles in the summer; a poker face that doesn’t keep once my knees fold.
SCHUYLER -
The world will be loud again. I’ll notice the loneliness less.
SCHUYLER -
I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
SCHUYLER -
I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
SCHUYLER -
How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
SCHUYLER






