Teraza Faulkner on darkness
Teraza Faulkner47 quotes“Like a flower, that hides from the sun and discovers it still grows and blooms, I am learning that I too, can survive the dark, without you.”
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Sometimes my lion will try to roar back when I flee. But its my butterfly that keeps me silent when I leave.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner You’re the crescent moon cradling all theses shadows of me teach me how to shine so there’s no distance between you and I.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Pain is as dark as it is deep. But just like anything that receives enough light, it too will fade over time and become something, a little less ominous, and a little more hopeful.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Pain often hides behind dry eyes yet that river still flows on the inside.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner I’m holding happiness as though it never left it was always below my skin. Waiting to be seen waiting for the opportunity to breathe again.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner It’s those hands of time saving me when nothing else can.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Skin on skin his heart beat an orchestra against her chest. Love never tires of music like this.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner I am caught between the meadow and the sky knowing I can walk long distances, but believing there’s something greater than where my feet can take me.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner There is no road less travelled than the one that leads into the sea. But the waves will always take you to where you need to be.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Morning mist like a blanket to dawn, obscures the hope of a new day. Yet the sunrises high, and the blanket falls and hope returns to the stage.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Take me from this wasteland, for I have longed for an escape like a bird that craves the wilderness, from every corner of his cage.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Sometimes it is not about the touch at all it is about the hands they belong too.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Bitter sweet rose her thorns pierce every bone, but her lustful petals fall like bandaids for bleeding sores.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner A flower grows where it is planted but love grows everywhere.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner Mountains speak in peaks and troughs. Just like life. And just like love.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner I will always have a little bit of the wild in me. Always remembering what a good heart tastes like. Like love, that never ends. Like you.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.
NostradamusNostradamus God made night, But man made darkness.
Spike MilliganSpike Milligan It’s her black wings that make her beautiful.
Melody LeeMelody Lee You’d be a fool to think that you leaving me in darkness meant I’d stay there forever.
Sumiran ThapaSumiran Thapa There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
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