I am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
GEMMA IVERSENFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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How are you yet to learn? I don’t want grand gestures. I don’t want the world on a plate, the best life has to offer, material things or flashy gimmicks. I just want you with me.
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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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I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
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With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.
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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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Experience has taught me to tell the difference between a man that wants to tame me, mute my voice and claim me, and a man that is bold enough to let me be free.
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Do I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
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Go on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
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I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.
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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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You pack your whole life away as many times as I have, and it’s no more than routine. But in you I’ve found a home, more so than anywhere I’ve been.
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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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