I’d rather suffer in silence than be subjected to deafening stares. I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship with my body, no one can see the bruises.
MAGGIE BOWYEROn my worst days, my brain tries to trick me into wishing I stayed. It’s really trying to convince me that I didn’t deserve to survive.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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You’ve retracted your rays of warmth. You’ve pulled the clouds to cover sunlight. I think everyone is growing more concerned as the days keep passing and you’re still absent.
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I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
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It has been years now and you still remain, blood stains splattered across my brain. Its not that you were the first woman that I loved, you were the first person I memorized properly.
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The burns didn’t hurt this badly when we were on fire.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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I’m not sure if I’m to blame for all my relationship failures. But when I look at the wreckage I am the only commonality.
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My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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These words crash over and threaten to destroy me. I cannot find the stars so far beneath these waves of insecurity and mistrust, their light has seemed to vanish.
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