And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
GEMMA IVERSENI sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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I strip. In low light. In the silence of my room. I strip like an act of confession. Unclothing my meticulous mind and teasing language from the vestry of my soul.
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I sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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I wished for nothing more than the warm crushing of your hold. It would be strong enough to shield me from the world as I grew old.
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I am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
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I’ve brought myself back to life more times than I can remember. And when I say I brought myself back, I mean, I have clawed, clambered and coaxed myself from the precipice of self destruction.
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Rise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
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A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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Let me show you how words can make merriment from the most bitter melancholy. How words softly spoken, can heal even the most insidious of wounds.
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He loves me. He loves me not. Perhaps I’m one that fate forgot. Perhaps I wasn’t made for this, to lose myself in love’s first kiss.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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I looked again at my new ring and in that moment all I knew, was that the greatest of adventures would be revealed in with you.
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To all those I have loved and left, please know, it wasn’t you. For though I’d not wish you bereft, this heart seeks pastures new.
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Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
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What’s the end game? Well, when hate is your agenda, and my own is but love, then this game is not one in which you feature, and my end, is a far-flung world from yours.
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