Michaela Angemeer > Quotes

“i knew everything about who
i wanted you to be​ and nothing about who you really were”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i tried so hard
to be whole for you
but it turns out​ you like me better when i’m in pieces”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“loving you was like
choosing to cross the tracks​ even though i knew a train was coming”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“if you fall in love with someone’s potential you will break your own heart”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“you
can make
someone love
you but you can’t
make them choose you”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“when he says that he’s
scared of hurting you​ it’s not empathy, it’s a warning”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i don't wanna be with anybody
who weaponizes my vulnerability
saves it in a wooden box
loads it in a shotgun
when I least expect it”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“you cannot use someone else’s map to find yourself”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“and when the shore
seems out of reach
don't forget that

you can always just float for a while”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“you can have all of me or
nothing at all
choose”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“please don’t look at me
this is not love
this is every breath i’ve ever taken
this is the north star
the sun rising until it bursts
this is more than my heart
this is i am in love with you
and i can’t do anything about it”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i have been let down
by men
so many times there is no disappointment left for you”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“you don’t set boundaries to end a relationship you set boundaries to continue it”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“i’m sorry i don’t have anything left in me i’m sorry all of me wasn’t enough for you”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“you deserve a call me anytime love. a pick you up from the airport love. a love note on napkins kind of love. a chicken noodle soup for sore throats kind of love. a back rub before bed kind of love. a laughs at your bad jokes kind of love. a reminder to get up ten minutes earlier because it snowed and you’re going to have to clean off your car kind of love. a clean off your car for you kind of love. a bring you cheesecake when you have cramps kind of love. a listening love. a love that takes care of you. a love that sees your messy hair, your morning breath, your spiralling mind, your no sleep crankiness, a love that loves you more because of it. you deserve a requited love. a love that lasts.”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“emptied my cup to fill up yours until i learned that there’s no point in watering something that doesn’t want to grow”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“i can’t explain where
all my love for you
came from
it’s as if we once
raised a child baby fingers gripping pinkies
or died together on
a bed of dandelions
it’s as if i were the moon and you were the sun
always convincing each other
the next day was worth rising for
and when i was too caught up in being the ocean you
never forgot to remind me
what your earth felt like
i don’t know if we’ll finally
collide in this century
but i am certain i have
loved you in more than a thousand different lifetimes”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“and just like
the new moon
you will rebuild​ you will become whole again”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i am no longer soft
i built this city on broken spines
and cracked open rib cages
my collar bones prop up street lamps
femurs line railroads
tibias stacked to build straw homes
my smashed skull is why
no one lives here anymore
i am sorry you expected
petals when
all i’ll ever have
are bones”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i will be the last woman in my family to be used as a pin cushion a mirror a reflection of a man’s wounds”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“you can share yourself
without losing pieces of you”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i’m sorry
you were afraid
of my kind of love”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“i don't know
what i'm meant to be
if i'm not meant to be young”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“i will put you in a support group
with all the men that came before you
just know that when your throat is dry
they are not the kind to bring you water”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“just breathe
three, four,
inhale, exhale
five, six your life is worth so much more than this”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“be love. embrace love in all forms. let go of fear of love. realize love is all you need. create a life full of romance. light candles and incense. wear perfume. buy yourself gifts for no reason. be open to receiving. realize that the only person who can stop you from living your dream is you. and you are deserving of a life worth dreaming about.”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“don’t plant seeds of commitment
in my mind
if you never intend to water them”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“you are the only person
who can put yourself first”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

“i am tired of being
the tree that everyone hangs from”
― Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

“unclench my fists kiss my palms and tell them all my wars have already been fought”
― Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst