I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
BLAKE AUDENWhat if love just isn’t enough.
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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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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 am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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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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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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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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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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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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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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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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