She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
BLAKE AUDENTo survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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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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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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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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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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