I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
MIRA R. ARIDIWe preserve their places in our hearts depending on the way they leave them.
More Mira R. Aridi Quotes
-
-
We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
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.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You’ll roam the world and come to realize: It’s all in you, to be free or not to be.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You pull away and suddenly I have more room to grow.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
When she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
I wish I can still hold your hand like I used to. I wish you were still alive.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Sometimes I feel like I’m only a drop in your ocean and the waves will soon carry me away.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Of all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
And when you win all wars of life, there will remain the one you must lose. Time.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
A year has passed, and even after all that has changed, I know one thing hasn’t. I still want you.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
Nothing hurts me more than when I tell you to leave me alone, and you do.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
It was always your dreams we focused on, you never thought I’d have dreams too.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
You say we’re nonsense together, but nothing makes more sense to me.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
I run from my thoughts of you and meet them in my dreams.
MIRA R. ARIDI -
This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.
MIRA R. ARIDI