He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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You are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
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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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Root yourself in love.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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Is your love the storm or the lighthouse?
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He tried everything to silence her except for kindness and remorse -only love softens a voice.
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You can water a plant but it has to want to grow.
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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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I will not beg you to keep me- I can house my own heart.
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His fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
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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 make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
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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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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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