All Quotes By Tag: Poetry

“I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can’t imagine going back there… to a me that didn’t know your name.”

“I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I’ve always been me. It just took awhile to find me under all the rubble.”

“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it”

“She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.”

“She just needs someone to remind her of all the things she already knows about herself.”

“Somehow, when you look at me, you still see the good despite all of the ugly sides of me that often consume the reflection I see.”

“By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like.”

“I know this life isn’t fair. I know that beauty will fade and hard times will grip our hearts and darkness will threaten to swallow us whole. But, I’m ready to face the night with you.”

“I fell in love with his effort. The way he never stopped trying to make this love the best it could be.”

“Don’t forget that the pain is temporary. So feel it. Let it have its moment, and then dismiss it. Because you’re not meant to live in it forever.”

“You have the power to overcome. You have the power to persist. You have the power to be hurting and scared and broken while still courageously pressing onward.”

“I was missing you, but not for the person you were. I was missing you for the version of you I made up in my mind. I was missing the possibilities of what could have been. I was missing the potential I thought I saw in you. I was missing you for the glimpses I thought I saw of our future and for that hopes I had that I could be a girl worth changing for.”

“There is no change within a society that does not begin within an individual.”

“Love is deadAnd we are each to blameWhen we took lighters over wild flame.”

“I don’t want safety or guarantees—I want a life worth living.I want to jump off a skyscraperAnd fashion a parachute on the way downOut of my fears and trepidationsBecause sometimes survivalIsn’t the most important thingAnd survivingIsn’t the same as living.”