The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
NICOLE LYONSWhatever it is that stirs your soul listen to that. Everything else is just noise.
More Nicole Lyons Quotes
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You were a lifetime ago, yet here I am, still pulling pieces of you out of me.
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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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You can fan the flames with hate or stroke the fire with love, either way, it’s going to burn.
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I breathe him in so deep that when he is gone I exhale and taste him again.
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When I told you that I hadn’t been broken before; it wasn’t a fucking challenge.
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I will not force a pretty smile upon my face to please eyes that no longer see me.
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How recklessly we turn from strangers and blindly back to lovers, to nothing.
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I think I saw you again in the moonlight tonight, and I swear I could taste the hints of it alll.
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Be bold, child. You are rare and you are brazen light.
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You can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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I drink to the ones that can sit with their souls and not wish for sleep and the nightmares it brings.
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I swear if I were to rip myself open, it wouldn’t be blood that poured out of me, it would be him.
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Be patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.
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There is no greater power than that of the sun, the moon, and a woman who knows her worth.
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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
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