- “She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or loved with every piece of her heart. There was no in-between for her. It was either all or nothing. She wanted everything but settled for nothing.”
- “One day I will laugh and no loneliness will fall out.” – Te’ V. Smith, Here We Are, Reflections Of A God Gone Mad
- “I’m currently learning how to breathe with all this water in my lungs.”
- “How brave of your body to keep breathing when all you can think about is not.”
- “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- “I apologize for attempting to fix you when I was broken.”
- “Maybe my problem is that when I’m lost I look for you, not myself.”
- “You deserve happiness. So I left.”
- “I destroy myself so you can’t.”
- “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- “I’m tired… I’m so tired. I thought I just needed a night’s sleep, but it’s more than that.” – Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- “I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “I guess I’m still holding on to something that I know will never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.”
- “I know I keep things bottled up but underneath this cool exterior there’s a sad human being.”
- “Every night I feel like I’m suffocating and every morning I wake up alive.”
- “Break me into as many pieces as it takes to make you whole again.”
- “I poured everything I had into you and you were still empty.”
- “I’m the rain hitting against glass panes keeping you awake in the middle of the night but you’ll never love me enough to open the window.” - hauntedbones
- “I’m stuck as an exhibit in your love museum under the gallery of ‘missed chances.’” – allsska
- “I don’t hate the taste of blood in my mouth I hate its indication of my beating heart.” – poeticalamity
- “Been drowning for so long that it feels like swimming.” – deluge
- “You cannot know me if you are used to swimming in the shallows.” – fairycemetery
- “You said I was the girl of your dreams; I guess you decided to wake up.”
- “My biggest fear is that you’ll leave, and I’ll be trapped in this room knowing how it feels to drown without water.” – fairycemetery
- “I fell so in love with your words I forgot lies existed.”
- “Don’t be fooled. I showed you one constellation. One constellation from an entire night sky. I am a bed of stars, and all you saw was a twinkle.” – precariouswords
- “I gave everyone I’ve ever known the power to destroy me, so yeah, I really loved everyone at a point.” – allsska
- “You’ve seen my face but not my real one.” – allsska
- “It’s unfortunate that I’ve stabbed myself more times than anybody else.” – tinynietzsche
- “I will pronounce the prettiest words for you and you won’t mind one bit that it comes from such an ugly mouth.” – precariouswords
- “Your silence hurts more than any words you could’ve said to break me.” – whorebaby
- “When you realize that your inability to let others love you is a manifestation of internalized self-hatred.” – ortuist
- “Opened my art gallery of memories. Out spilled a set of portraits in a sea of paintings. Each was a different girl. But all bore my name.” – precariouswords
- “Sometimes I fear I’ll drown in my own waves from this sea I keep inside.” – incharmuese
- “I water my plants until they drown and this is the only way I know how to love.” – onlywreckage
- “Someone asked me what color my eyes were and I accidentally said broken instead of brown and maybe it’s because they are.” – whorebaby
- “I am destruction itself and I still loved you better.” – allsska
- “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” – Ernest Hemingway
- “You gave me nothing and I felt all of it.” – thedecadent_
- “I can’t remember the last time someone listened and actually understood.” – nourhanyusef
- “No one loves me like I love them.” – 8bitfiction
- “I don’t want to die anymore but somehow that first breath after I wake up still feels like drowning.” – zemblyxnity
- “It hurts to put your all into something only for it to kill you.” – allsska
- “Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?” – trajectoryuk
- “I wonder why I’m still so gentle and soft after all the times I’ve been hurt.” – insidiousslut
- “I need some of the love I give back, damn it.” – 8bitfiction
- “I am afraid to do anything and hours are just vanishing.”
- “At my best I’m still my worst.” – allsska
- “The one I couldn’t stand to be with was myself.” – pheobetonks
- “You should’ve loved me.” – allsska
- “I would destroy myself to fix you.” – MaggieLindmann
- “Everything keeps changing but nothing feels different.” – elfincharms
- “Dear self, you’re fragile and deeply flawed and the universe has been quite cruel to you but I love how you’ve survived all this chaos.” – Foggy_Memories
- “I know I won’t be able to give you exactly what you want but I promise I’ll do the best I can.” – allsska
- “I love without hesitation but with plenty of fear.” – elfincharms
- “When I die I know I’ll be in heaven ‘cuz I’ve spent my time in hell.” – deathofwyckly
- “There are infinite ways to express yourself and you still keep so much inside.” – onlywreckage
- “I find the more I’m sure of something, the less reality agrees with me.” – ItsRainsford
- “It’s OK baby, I know you keep some of those rooms inside you locked for a good reason.” – trajectoryuk
- “One problem with depression is that when good things happen you still have depression.” – sosadtoday
- “I keep watering flowers that died long ago.” – fairycemetery
- “She turned into the home she grew up in. Broken, abandoned and with the lights burnt out.” – fairycemetery
- “If you had my love I wonder how many worlds you’d dare to conquer.” – allsska
- “Being alive is the hardest thing I’ve ever done but I’m still fucking doing it.” – cerealandforks
- “It’s not that she’s never there… It’s that she’s too inside herself that she can’t get out.” – michellemmanese
- “Not everything is pretty inside of me and would you still hold me?” – incharmuese
- “I can turn you into poetry, but I cannot make you love me.” – AlisViolet
- “I’ll ask you to come back to me when you haven’t even left yet.” – allsska
- “Nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.” – illicamilli
- “And you don’t really care where everyone leaves to, you just want to know why they always have to leave without you.” – zemblxnity
- “I know my heartstrings sound a lot like a violin but I’m gonna need you to stop playing with those.” – iamballet
- “I’m always the one who loves more, that’s my problem.” – emotionalfuck
- “How much love do I have to give you for you to love me back?” – allsska
may 27 2016 ∞
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