Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
BLAKE AUDENCan someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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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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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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 course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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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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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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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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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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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 surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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