N.L. Shompole > Quotes

“Darling,
I know what
your eyes look like
when your heart is breaking.”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud”
― N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls

“There is a shipwreck somewhere inside me”
― N.L. Shompole

“The softhearted
guard their hearts
fiercely.”
― N.L. Shompole

“Darling, I know what your eyes look like when your heart is breaking.”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“This is how I remember you,”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“Darling,
has anyone ever fought for you?”
― N.L. Shompole

“this is how you start a fire”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“What do you tell your heart, when it asks about me?”
― N.L. Shompole, Cassiopeia at Midnight

“Sometimes a black hole sucks the light out of your skin and the calcium out of your bones  until you are a sagging heap of skin and nails.”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“& when the darkness comes: devour it.”
― N.L. Shompole, Kingdoms in the Wild: Vol 1

“You are a nebula with a bag of dreams and a belly full of stars.”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“It is your tenderness that haunts me.”
― N.L. Shompole, Cassiopeia at Midnight

“How many midnights has my soul counted?
Whispering between breaths as my bones listen for the sound of your name
My heart counts darkness and the spaces between it.

Without the rhythm of your heart,
mine has forgotten how to beat.”
― N.L. Shompole, Cassiopeia at Midnight

“All my heartbeats have returned to the wild.”
― N.L. Shompole, Heaven Water Blood

“Truth,
I can make you beg,
I can make you beg.”
― N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls