I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
BLAKE AUDENShe spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing 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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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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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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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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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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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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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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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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