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.
SCHUYLERPlease come here, but not too close.
More Schuyler Quotes
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I want to wade into the water on the sidewalk, crawl out of this feeling without giving it a name. Take a lighter to love’s sticky edges so its sadness isn’t caught in my throat.
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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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Change is not a four letter curse word I once believed it to be.
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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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There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
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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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Meet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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We’re in spring and I have learned how to be gentle and sharp; strong bark on budding trees. Hold out your hands. I’ll leave a pink kiss and a pocket knife.
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I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
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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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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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I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
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Some mornings, I like to live like a secret; wake as quietly as I can, slip out of bed without so much as a wrinkle.
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My love lives in my cheeks – gives me away by the first smile. all the lines from years spent laughing, warm with extra freckles in the summer; a poker face that doesn’t keep once my knees fold.
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In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
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