He said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
CHARLIE GILBERTShe stopped reading over the prologue she realized she had too many chapters left to write-moving on.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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Don’t buy their greatest lie -social media.
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I wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was art-the girl with the soft heart.
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I am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
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The fog is lifting I am healing- You don’t own my heart.
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If I could tell him anything it would be that he was his strongest bravest & most powerful in his most vulnerable of moments -the healed will not hurt you.
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He is the story I cannot finish he is the poem I’ll always miss.
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Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.
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He told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
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If you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
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I will not beg you to keep me- I can house my own heart.
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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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If you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.
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His fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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i cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
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You make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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Your poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.
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You can water a plant but it has to want to grow.
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He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
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He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
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I would have sat with you in the fire of any trauma how warm it must have felt to be met with a love like mine.
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She stopped reading over the prologue she realized she had too many chapters left to write-moving on.
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I miss him whispers my mind he left you screams my heart.
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I said I would heal with you-instead you burned my love.
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You blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
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