Somewhere along the way, she weaved herself so deeply into my veins I can’t fucking inhale without her breathing life into me.
T.L. MARTINLife is going to break your heart. Remember to say thank you.
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Come to me in pieces and exist inside me whole.
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You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.
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I suppose it was easier to pretend I didn’t exist than it was to exorcise my demons.
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God, can he see what he’s doing to me.
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I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it.
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Crawl inside this body, find me where I am most ruined – love me there.
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If you are afraid of darkness, you are afraid of your own soul.
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There’s a difference between loving someone as they are whole, and wanting to see all of their pieces. I’ve understood this for a while now, and I don’t fault anyone for it.
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Instead of ignorance, I tasted what it might be like to finally be me. I didn’t give a show this time. I had no plan, no calculations. No scolding voice inside my head. For a little while, I was free.
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I quickly learned I needed someone who specifically enjoyed, or at the very least could take it, when I hit that point of blinding release. Every time, I lost all sense of the control I work so hard at maintaining.
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Be you. All of you. Without consequence. Without judgment.
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He was unhinged. Shameless. Everything wrong and everything right. And he held the key to my cage in his palm.
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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
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Before I found an outlet through sex and blood.
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Gifts are meant to be wrapped. Honestly, it’s basic etiquette.
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Maybe I’ve dragged myself through the mud since then, but even mud hardens beneath your shoes. I must be standing on a mountain of it by now. And no one can touch me from way the hell up here.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
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You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.
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I desire very little, but the things I do consume me.
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Like I’m a puzzle to be worked out and he’s got all damn day.
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Love me like my demons do.
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Art is a private piece of me.
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You will eventually lose control, and when you do – when you lose every last shred of it until you can’t see red from black, right from wrong – I will be here. Ready to back you up, the way you should be doing for me.
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Really see me. Then I remember who I am, and that no one wants to see the parts of me I try so hard to hide. It’s a plain fact, not something I pity.
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There’s nothing more dishonest than words.
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Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.
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