I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
SCHUYLERIf every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
More Schuyler Quotes
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I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
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This does not have to be a hard life to love. There is not enough time to let it stray too far from my hands.
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People have been washed away by less. I’ll take every step gently. So often, you can’t tell the rush of a riptide until you’re already at sea.
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I’m choosing to believe things are getting better again. The give and take of joy, remembering a few days of ache does not mean forever.
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We’ve never seen what a happy life could look like if we chose to spend it by ourselves – sharing our beautiful lives with friends, family members, the occasional crush, and lounging out in that quiet space alone as if an idyllic sunned beach.
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If every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
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I’d get lost in this green, ferns leaning against the trees, soil stuck to my feet, never dream of finding my way back again.
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I don’t want to be a saint, I want a love I don’t fight alone to keep.
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I allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
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I’m writing about moving again, and when I write about moving, I really mean beginning. I’m beginning again.
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How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
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Yes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
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Hold me here, where I feel less like a stranger to my own laughter. Where it’s easier to believe things happen for a reason or maybe, at least, out of a thousand winding roads my life might take, I will still find one that fits me.
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I descend into an unopened sky, the ocean floor, the final embrace of a graveyard. Find your fill of me before my blue pales like a sour moon.
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I sit on the bare floor, leave my palms unturned, and watch relief pool into one hand, and uncertainty in the next. I will try not to lean more one way or another, but let them hold each other as company.
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