To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
BLAKE AUDENEven heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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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 surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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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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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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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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It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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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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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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