The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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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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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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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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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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 I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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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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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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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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