Can someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
BLAKE AUDENYou are more than the things that have hurt you.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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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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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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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 was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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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 terrifying thing it is to heal.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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