Haig Moses > Quotes

“After trauma of any degree there is a certain amount of happiness you are owed. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Remember that you have never been half of anything. A human. A child. A woman. A man. You are whole. An entirety. Remember that you do not need anyone else to complete you.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Fine. Here is the damn poem about myself: I am terrified. I am learning how to accommodate that.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“My healing causes chaos. A parasite in its purest form. I will damn you all to hell in the process of putting myself back together. I will not apologize for the damage I breed.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“It's okay to be wicked every once in a while. Sometimes good people must do bad things to save themselves.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“My desire to please is my greatest misdeed. Makes me filthy with sins and crimes too sweet to speak into this midsummer fever dream.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Beauty is desire. That's all it's ever gotten me, never love.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Something about breaking my own heart, time after time, made me sublime.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Oh, but honey, I've tasted a love so sweet that now everything I eat has the aftertaste of sugar.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“He cried love like the shepard boy cried wolf.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“And most importantly, live your life for yourself. Be unapologetically happy. Unapologetically free. Unapologetically you.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“My reflection
painted across the surface of the sea.
My wings,
formed by your love,
melts the sun.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Be kind to yourself and the love will catch up.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Prickly boy, did nobody tell you?
You have to be soft to be divine.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I'm telling you it shows; I love you so well I glow.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Special boy. Careless. Smiling. Love-filled man. Do not lose your softness in lieu of something foreign. Carefree man. Thoughtful. Selfless. Honorable boy. Do not let the world mold you into something grotesque.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“For all has ended once before and still, the sun rose to prove there was more.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Wild boy, why do you cry when you sleep?
Wild boy, do not pull yourself away from me.
Kiss your mother goodnight.
Kiss your children one last time.
Wild boy, say your prayers before you take flight.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Didn't your mother ever tell you not to make homes out of humans?”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I feel like I have all this love to give and nobody deserving of it. No one is worthy. Not anymore and so it sits on a shelf that I occasionally forget to dust and withers because occasionally, I forget to water it. Myself. My love.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Here is a poem about being twenty-something: Like a filly breaking free from its stables. Ripping away from its harness and cables. Unaware of the fence it's been boxed into. Unaware of the danger that lies beyond everything it knew. Do not look back filly. Do not look back. Race on into that morning dawn. That blistering sun. That autumn fawn because when reality strikes all will be gone.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I can't do anything with your pretty bouquet of words, but watch them die.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“There was a time when, if I spoke, my sadness would've come barreling out like southern tumbleweeds infecting the unpolluted happiness around me. So, I kept it inside. I keep it all inside. You would cry if you peeled me open.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Here's what all the stories don't tell you that sometimes love tastes a lot like fear. A lot like danger. A lot like walking off the edge of the world.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Love is losing and vulnerable and delicious and precious and more than these redundant words can sum up in this simple book. In laymen's terms, love is love. Nothing more, nothing less.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“He cried love like the shepherd boy cried wolf.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I have this rather awful affliction of loving people I know I shouldn't and it's eating me from the inside out hoping that you love me too.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“Honey pie. If you just wait with me until the sunrise a whole new day will rise along with it. A whole new you wanting to reach the other side because things might seem bad for now, but there is so much more to live for than not because your story it's not finished, so neither is mine.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I would not dare speak your name. Look how my love holds its breath. Always patient. Pleasant. Pining for all it cannot hold. Look how I turn blue for you.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“They say it's a disorder when life is too sweet, and no, I am not sixteen. Not anymore and maturity has rankled the taste of naïvety for me, yet I remember how it feels to be lost at thirteen. Always trying to hold myself together for the sake of others.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots