• “It’s called a broken heart because your chest feels like cannons are exploding into little bits from something that was once whole.”
• “The end of all love is abandonment.”
• “She says she loves me but her love feels like a hammer and I am weary of being a nail.”
• “We are everything I want except together.”
• “On my happiest day there will be a sadness no one sees but me.”
• “I’ve built walls I don’t know I’ve built trying to keep the shattered pieces of my heart inside my chest.”
• “There is a graveyard inside me and love is buried in those graves and sometimes at night I am haunted by ghosts.”
• “I was broken before you found me and I will forever walk with this limp.”
• “But then you wake up some days and you think this is the way the world is and nothing can change or will change so what’s the fucking point.”
• “Sometimes you want to die and sleep is your best friend.”
• “You know she’s got a hurricane inside her because her eyes keep dropping waves on her cheeks.”
• “Sometimes you have to leave because who you are doesn’t live there anymore.”
• “When you tell someone to ‘let it go’ or ‘move on’ you may be blaming them for not being able to walk while they are still falling.”
• “She said she didn’t know me but every time I tried to show her who I was she said don’t be that.”
• “I do not fear death I fear having never lived.”
• “Hold me under the waves until I learn to breathe again.”
• “Some things will last forever much more easily if they never have a definition.”
• “I would do anything to protect her, even let her go.”
• “It’s that we’re all so broken so we spend our lives plastering over the deep fractures but they’re always there threatening to bring us down.”
• “You never know it’s really love until you love with a broken heart.”
• “Loving me hurts like fucking hell. I will drive a silver spike through your heart and never know I had a hammer in my hand.”
• “I presume I am awake, but I almost never know when I am dreaming.”
• “Even the most intimate words in me can keep their distance.”
• “I am not looking so much for calm waters as for the kiss of the waves.”
• “They will never be able to understand how every day began to feel like a horrible way to die.”
• “Some days talking is more commitment than I can handle.”
• “I have made this journey into a prolonged death and the disease is me.”
• “I am feeling every loss tonight; there is a full graveyard inside my chest, and this full moon has every ghost staring at my high tide eyes.”
• “I spent most of my long life trying to be someone else and now after trying to be myself I remember why.”
• “Love hurts and I must like to hurt.”
• “I love you and I am broken. And I am sorry loving you feels like a thousand shards cutting you into little pieces.”
• “If there’s enough pain you can bleed into the paper.”
• “He was too smart to be happy.”
• “It will all look fine but behind my eyes there will be sadness.”
• “Even if you turn off the music the sadness will still play its melody.”
• “Some days all I can see is the walls of my skin surrounding me.”
• “He loved a fire and died of smoke inhalation.”
• “It’s not that I don’t feel. I feel, but everything is muted, dull, flaccid. It’s just enough feeling to know I’m alive and it’s all sad.”
• “I was abandoned long before I left.”
• “They told me I could be whatever I wanted to be but when I tried to be myself they said ‘not that’.”
• “They just want it to be like it was when everything was a good looking lie.”
• “You will learn what it means to burn without dying, and die while still breathing.”
• “I would love myself except I can’t find me.”
• “Everything will die except the loneliness.”
• “I buried my feelings for so long I found a vast graveyard inside my chest, and the weight of all those tombstones became more than I could take.”
• “I have been loneliest surrounded by people, and I have felt my most whole completely alone.”
• “It’s a strange world where for years they never see you hurting and every day you get better they think you’re losing your mind.”
• “She doesn’t like to talk but she likes to be heard.”
• “Listen to me when I’m not talking.”
• “You bury who you are by telling yourself you don’t want to hurt anyone anymore but you end up destroying everyone just to be alive.”
• “To be fair, I buried myself long ago so I shouldn’t be surprised they’re freaking out now seeing me alive as I am.”
• “Wonder which one of us this love is going to kill first.”
• “There are wounds that do not heal and scars that never stop hurting.”
• “We were both broken but I was glass and she was concrete.”
• “He only wanted to know love but love would not know him.”
• “You can’t be friends with a fire, but you can burn in her flames.”
• “They talk but their eyes are far away.”
• “Poetry is the way I sing and the way I cry.”
• “I still have tears I haven’t cried for you.”
• “I can’t save your soul but we can walk into hell together holding hands.”
• “Maybe if I fall in love with loneliness she will never speak to me again either.”
• “Her silences tell me as much as her words.”
• ”When I travel some things that died live in me again.”
• “It is the collateral damage of being alive.”
• “I don’t know how to live without the layers yet. I’m still learning how to walk real.”
• “Expectations are the strongest prison.”
• “They’re all praying; not that I will be me, but what I used to show them I was.”
• “Sometimes when you love you fall forever, because no one is there to catch you.”
• “The better I feel about myself the more they hate me.”
• “I hate that I am a disappointment to everyone, but I’m not going back to that fucking grave.”
• “I can no longer be what I am not and survive.”
• “Even if I let you in I’m hard to know.”
• “I didn’t lose my way so much as I decided to make a path where none existed before.”
• “I’d walk away from me too if I could.”
• “Some days loneliness feels like it will break you. But the loneliness is healing you, pushing you to yourself.”
• “I want to be to you what they have not been to me: there.”
• “Be kind to yourself. The wars going on inside you are doing enough damage.”
• “I don’t have to wonder what dying feels like but I’ve had a hard time remembering what it feels like to live.”
• “Love will knock you to the ground, but I’ve always had an affection for dirt.”
• “You can be anything you want to be. Why aren’t you mine?”
• “She smiles but the sadness doesn’t leave her eyes.”
• “I only wanted to be real. I didn’t know real would hurt this much.”
• “She looks at me and I see the tears she’s not crying, this ocean she is hiding inside.”
• “Some people push you over the edge, and some people are the edge you fall over forever.”
• “Love me so hard I believe you.”
• “I keep reminding myself that this isn’t the loneliest I have ever been.”
• “There is an ocean where she used to be. She just became all the tears I am crying.”
• “I could no longer bear the excruciating banality of normalcy.”
• “I don’t know whether I can recover. Most days I think I can, but I have seen too many disasters to know.”
• “I like the way you don’t think about me all the time, the way I’m always never on your mind.”

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• “We are in different timezones but our hearts are still beating together.”
• “She knows I’m fucked up in ways no one else does and she’s never made me feel less than everything.”
• “I’ll launch a thousand dreams just to find you in one.”
• “All these metaphors of the moon and stars and deep space but she’s a bottomless pit and I’m still falling.”
•  “She was a wall full of cracks and flaws and I loved every one of them because they were the only way inside her.”
• “I sleep to find you in dreams.”
• “Her eyes are an explosion in deep space and I cannot stop looking at the destruction.”
• “I’m in love with the way she caresses my name on her tongue.”
• “Molecules arranged in the magic called her.”
• “She says that she’s an asylum but let’s be clear, she is my asylum; she is the place I run to when the madness of the world becomes too much.”
• “Wanting you is my new way of breathing.”
• “I had begun to believe there was only sadness left inside me, but she finds places deeper than the sadness.”
• “My heart is an asteroid and it is headed for your destruction.”
• “I have no plans but I have her and the world seems hopeful.”
• “I want you to be yourself because it’s the most beautiful you I know.”
• “We can fall forever if the love is deep enough.”
• “Put on whatever you must to be presentable to the day but when the night falls strip it all away and come to me my darling.”
• “I’ll be the seashell on the shoreline; you be the waves. Now break me to bits.”
• “I did not remember to love you today. You did not make my to do list today because you are woven inside me, and I do not remember to breathe.”
• “Loneliness is not being able to touch her.”
• “I’m a sinking ship in a violent storm but at least I’ll drown in you.”
• “Every mile between us is a different kind of ache.”
• “Her eyes are the night sky and in my dreams I will go to the stars.”
• “It’s not that I want to make you feel beautiful. I want to be a kind of mirror that shows you who you are.”
• “She’s a whole other world existing in the dark space of my universe.”
• “I believe in magic because I have seen you.”
• “Your eyes are the coffee I want to wake up to.”
• “Our touch feels good even without skin.”
• “She’s everything I want except here.”
• “She’s out of her mind but it’s alright because I’ve got her on mine.”
• “She kissed me and for a while I forgot everything that ever hurt.”
• “You are nothing I ever expected and everything I ever wanted.”
• “I’ve made all the wrong choices, taken all the wrong paths, but I’m one step closer to you.”
• “We were broken but somehow we fit together.”
• “You are a storm. I want to make you thunder.”