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 AUDENI have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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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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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in 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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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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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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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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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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There’s a weight to it, this missing 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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