Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
M.K. STANDBYThe smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.
More M.K. Standby Quotes
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Peace found me in a wordless embrace – in the rising of autumn sun, and the sound of turning pages.
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I read that good things take time – but one look at him, and I knew I could never love someone more.
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The leaves know when to let go – if only I had the same instinct.
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I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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What use is sleep, when reality is more beautiful than my dreams could ever muster?
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A full glass for an empty heart – the temporary bandage for a fatal would.
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I see the way that he is with you – holding your heart with softness he never spared for mine.
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I sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
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We didn’t know it was simpler, did we? Those days of sunburnt youth and carefree adventure. Knowing that indestructible optimism would waver with experience – would I have gripped it a little tighter? Held on a little longer?
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Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
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You are a mirage – never mine to hold. A glimering promise so tempting to chase, eternally out of reach.
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And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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You broke me into pieces, but I took those shards and built a mosaic. I’m stronger for the fall, and more beautiful than I could have ever been with you.
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In the pale light of a setting sun – I’ll hold your hand and promise to love you more, on the days that you forget to love yourself.
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My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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