I wish you could feel it when it’s dark at night, and I think of you when I pass the streetlights. But I know you feel the care without me being there.
RENEE STONEYou are chaos in my heart – clogging up my arteries. I can’t move on or bring in more love than what was at the start
More Renee Stone Quotes
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It’s really hard to grow up wanting to provide people with resources and support and realizing that while I can and will do that – I also need more than I thought I would.
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We walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
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My body is a field site of muscle memory and weathered bones.
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The free for all of love – these tiny acts within our capability. In turn, reciprocation is of no concern. We just want people to listen and learn that love is granted to all.
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When you and the world are out of breath, take the steps to ensure your own needs are met. By the moment you know someone can’t on their own, you’ll hopefully be ready to help.
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You wonder why you didn’t do it sooner – why you didn’t clear your mind when the clouds loomed.
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To be understood is to be on part of the path to inclusivity.
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I want to tell them how tired I am because I don’t think it shows. But maybe it’s the same for them – all strangers to the weight each of us carries. So alone, we carry these loads.
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People struggle with words that spill and overwhelm you because they themselves are sinking.
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We’re so distant, words can’t save us.
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It takes less for me to be impacted, for my state of being to worsen.
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I carry on knowing that when I deteriorate, my body will be a museum of all I can do and all that hindered me.
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And I saw forever in your eyes ’til the sunset started to dim your light. You told me you’d always hold me tight, but your warmth faded with the bright.
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Why is it that you have more practice describing weaknesses than strengths? It’s not your fault they never went to the lengths to teach you how to value your strengths.
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Somewhere the silence resonates, the clutter clears, and you’re set to start again.
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Body and mind aren’t separated. And so all these things I write, they are felt in the aches of my heart.
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They tell me summer is coming, and soon we’ll be dancing on the shore. Waiting for the moonlight to light me up amongst the starlight.
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It felt vulnerable to have people know my weaknesses, but there is so much strength from going back to the start and re-determining who you are.
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I still have a scar from the time someone said, ‘Sometimes love isn’t enough.’
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Imagine the unknown of what the beings around you cover up and struggle with everyday.
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When you write me into your story, don’t set my end in stone. Feel free to let me go. I’d like to join your story, but remember I have my own.
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Tell me I’m sun-kissed, but you burn my skin. And you already told me, I was paper thin.
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And so, my ‘What if’s’ became ‘What’s next?’
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I wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
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I escaped the voice of darkness that was as pervasive as the silence that has come to replace all the words you had misplaced.
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To the songs you haven’t heard from me. To the pains you haven’t felt for me.
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