You pull away and suddenly I have more room to grow.
MIRA R. ARIDIPerhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
More Mira R. Aridi Quotes
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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Perhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
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This year, I will let grief walk by my side, but I will lead the way.
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It was always your dreams we focused on, you never thought I’d have dreams too.
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And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
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Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
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Of all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.
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Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.
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I’m breathing dreams like air, like there will never be enough of them to fill up the space in my lungs.
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You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
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I’ve always had a fear of endings, but it comes as relief to me that among all the dying things, I am one too.
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This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.
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I got used to temporary things. I’m afraid I might not want anything permanent at all.
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Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.
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I shed skin after skin, seeking my true colors, expecting a rainbow or a stripe of black, but all I get are maps of red. We are all human underneath.
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I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
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And when you win all wars of life, there will remain the one you must lose. Time.
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I’ve come to see that life does not only exist where you do. There’s sense of life here too.
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I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
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You say we’re nonsense together, but nothing makes more sense to me.
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We preserve their places in our hearts depending on the way they leave them.
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I wish I can still hold your hand like I used to. I wish you were still alive.
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How is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
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You touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
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No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.
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Nothing hurts me more than when I tell you to leave me alone, and you do.
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