I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
BLAKE AUDENYou touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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 can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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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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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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You are more than the things that have hurt 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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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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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 have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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