Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDENOf course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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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 spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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 surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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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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