I’ve spent a lot of my life being lost but aren’t those the best adventures?
JULIA KELLOGG HENRYBut maybe, We don’t need to be whole to be complete, maybe the fact that we are all a little unfinished is what makes us so alluring, so human.
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Writing saved my life when it all became too much. I poured my pain out into poetry I let the paper absorb everything I’d been holding on for years.
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Noticed that I had been holding my breath for so long and finally gave myself permission to breathe.
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Do not compromise who you are to satisfy the ones that are always trying to change you, that are constantly disappointed in your love.
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Traveling is my kryptonite. Offer me a ticket to exploration and I will leave everything important in my life behind. Because the nights I get to be a wanderer of this world are the nights I can finally sleep.
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Some things can’t be explained not even with poetry.
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I wonder if she understands how different she is from any other friends I’ve had, If she recognizes how many of my poems are about the way our souls entwine, If she’ll ever know how much I love her.
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Last winter was colder than usual. Maybe it was the warmth that died with the millions of lives covid stole, or maybe it was the way close people betrayed me and left a gaping hole.
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You have always been able to manipulate my heart in such a way that even though I’m bleeding, I offer you band aids that are holding me together.
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We left pieces of ourselves in each other.
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You are the sweet, soft, delicacy that delights my soul. I want to taste every part of your aura’s citrusy tang.
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I come as a full course meal, I will no longer hand myself out like a menu and wait for people to pick me out.
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Forgiveness is a baked good it takes time and patience and I used to enjoy bouncing around the kitchen mixing sugar and love- but I don’t bake anymore.
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I’ll never understand how you dumped water on me but didn’t notice me drowning.
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I have no comfort left to offer you, no love I’m willing to give, I’ve learnt years ago that you will always ask for what you can’t return.
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I realize, no matter how much we grew, no matter how much we may have learnt, at the end of the day we both lost- because we didn’t have each other.
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