D. Michael Hardy > Quotes

“We are all damaged, broken creatures, searching for love, acceptance, understanding, in a world that has no patience or tolerance for beautiful things.”
― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography

“Too often, there are no words to describe the heartache of a lost love, only the deafening silence left in its wake, and the unfathomable sorrow that seeps deep into the dark crevices of our frail hearts.”
― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography

“Sometimes writing can take you to such dark places it can be nearly impossible to come back from; a part of you is left there, in the words you've bled onto paper, in the emotions you've let loose upon the page, and eventually, the world.”
― D Michael Hardy

“Nights I stay up writing about you, wondering where you've gone, my heart doesn't understand your absence, I do my best to reassure, but its erratic beating tells me it doesn't believe my lies.”
― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography

“Every love story is a tragedy, in the end, but that's what makes them so beautiful, so cherished in the minds and hearts of those who remember them.”
― D Michael Hardy

“Our shadows still walk these streets. Like ghosts, they haunt our every move.”
― D. Michael Hardy, Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography

“All we can do is move forward, against all odds, into the uncertain future. The past is over, the doors are closed; there's nothing left back there but sentimental ghosts.”
― D Michael Hardy

“Writing fiction can be a dangerous game...people will read your work and assume they know you...how you think, how you feel, how you live...they'll develop all kinds of misconceptions about you...but then again, they may be right.”
― D Michael Hardy