Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDENWhat if love just isn’t enough.
More Blake Auden Quotes
-
-
You are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDEN -
I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
BLAKE AUDEN -
I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
BLAKE AUDEN -
It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
BLAKE AUDEN -
To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
BLAKE AUDEN -
You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
BLAKE AUDEN -
I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
BLAKE AUDEN -
I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
BLAKE AUDEN -
These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
BLAKE AUDEN -
Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
BLAKE AUDEN -
You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
BLAKE AUDEN -
It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
BLAKE AUDEN -
Some days survival is all the living I can do.
BLAKE AUDEN -
Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
BLAKE AUDEN -
Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
BLAKE AUDEN








