Body and mind aren’t separated. And so all these things I write, they are felt in the aches of my heart.
RENEE STONEI 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.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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The thought of you having to try hurts because it feels like you should have known to let me go before you grabbed ahold.
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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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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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If I could reverse time, I would spend more time looking into what ailed my loved ones – would have learned more about medical gaslighting.
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And so, my ‘What if’s’ became ‘What’s next?’
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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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I bear the fruits of your memory in the expression of my art for that is what you gave to the world.
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When the silence fades and now sounds begin to bloom, I will grow to feel calm again. Healthily this time.
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My words decay. I grow as they fray, unbecoming in the passage of time.
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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 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.
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I overwhelmingly write from sadness – in songs, in prose, in verse.
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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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I grew up learning history about communities that would support their people (the idea that it takes a village), but all I see are so many people left on their own.
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I try to build myself a bridge to cross every time I start to ruminate on my thoughts.
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