She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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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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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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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 swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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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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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss 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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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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 heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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