And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
NICOLE LYONSHow recklessly we turn from strangers and blindly back to lovers, to nothing.
More Nicole Lyons Quotes
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I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.
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She tasted like wildflowers; crushed, wet wild flowers carried in sticky palms through farmers’ fields, just before dawn.
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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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I could lose myself in you or die blissfully, trying.
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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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There is no greater power than that of the sun, the moon, and a woman who knows her worth.
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He calms my chaos and I fuel his fire. We are a match made between heaven and hell.
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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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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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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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I think you were my taste of heaven after a lifetime of eating hell.
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Every now and then even the sweetest souls burn it to the ground, just to remind the rest of them who exactly they are fucking with.
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I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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Pleasure or pain; I’ll take either as long as it is laced with passion.
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