I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.
NICOLE LYONSI swear if I were to rip myself open, it wouldn’t be blood that poured out of me, it would be him.
More Nicole Lyons Quotes
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I like my soul when it touches yours; winter turns to summer and my nightmares become dreams.
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I have known love and I have known loss, but in the end, they both looked a lot like you.
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I have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
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I think you were my taste of heaven after a lifetime of eating hell.
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Too many times I have given this heart away, I am afraid it is no longer mine.
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She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
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The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
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Every now and then I roam the catacombs in my head and attempt to resurrect you, and make you shiny again.
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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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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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If I had known our last kiss was to be our last kiss, I would have kissed you as if it was our first.
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You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
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Oh my darling, you mustn’t fill up on memories alone, there is heartache and regret yet to be served.
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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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I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
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