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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.

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There is one who you belong to, whose love- there is no song for.
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Love Relationship Song True Yourself
Strange how it mattered so much, when now it matters so little.
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Important Strange Value
I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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Break Up Explanation I Love You Myself
you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
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Depth Inflict Wound Yourself
When was the last time you felt like someone knew you and not the person you’ve been pretending to be. When was the last time you felt like yourself.
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Be Yourself Feeling Pretend Time
Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.
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Finding Life Love Myself Searching
We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?
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Break Each Other Finding Lover Myself Thinking World Worth
Summer was felt a little more; in autumn I began to fall. When winter came with all its white, you were mine to kiss goodnight.
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Autumn Beginning Feeling Kissing Myself Summer
I loved you more than love was allowed.
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Allow Excess I Love You Myself
The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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Break Up Distance Measurement Myself
Here’s to those who wish us well, and the rest can go to hell!
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Hell Ourselves Rest
I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around- all sad people write.
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Deep Myself People Poet Sadness Thinking Writing
The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you.
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Betrayal Loyalty Yourself
Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?
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Simplicity Yourself
I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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Build Leave Mess Myself Wall
I know you are scared. Who could blame you? Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysalis. And you are a girl walking into the storm.
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Hurricane Known Love Scare Storm Walk
The greatest heartache comes from loving another soul, they said, beyond reason, beyond doubt, with no hope of salvation.
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Heart Broken Hope Intense Love Relationship Salvation Soul
I have given so much to things that weren’t worth my time. When all along, it’s the people I love that I should have carried.
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Carry Love Myself People Time Worth
Love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time.
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Dormant Love Silence Time Volcano
That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.
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Hands Oneself Sacred Writing
I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
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Award Heart Broken Learning Myself Prize Writing Yourself
I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
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Catch Home Love Myself Plane Recognition Smile
And I sighed and wept for what could not be–and for all that could have been.
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Cry Dream Future Myself Sadness
What is she like? I was told – she is a melancholy soul.
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Melancholy Sadness Soul
How do I thank my mother for giving me the life she desperately wanted to give herself.
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Desperate Herself Life Mom Thankful
To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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Dare Despair Hope Love
When love finds you, it doesn’t come as crashing waves or thunderbolts. It appears as a song on the radio or a particular blue in the sky. It dawns on you slowly, like a warm winter sunrise-where the promise of summer shines out from within.
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Calm Love Peace Slow Sunrise Warm Winter Yourself

You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.

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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.

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