You are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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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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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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