Emily Juniper > Quotes

“I cannot recall
the last time
I woke up and felt okay,
but that doesn't mean
I won't feel okay again.

--Hope”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“They did not make you stronger.
They did not make you better.
They simply complemented a time in your life.
But that time has passed,
and you are not broken because you have lost, and you are not damaged because you are hurting

--You Do Not Need Them”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“I once read
that feeling lonely
means I need to
get to know myself.
but what if I'm lonely
because I know myself too well?

--Lonely”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“I dump sugar
carelessly
into my morning coffee
and I wonder
if we too
will dissolve
as soon as we are
done falling

(Commuter Thoughts)”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“I am never lonelier
than when I am with
the wrong people.

--Wrong People”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“I give
too many chances
to people who
don't deserve them,
but who could
condemn a heart
that keeps believing
even when it shouldn't?

--Chances”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“And finally, how to tell when boys like you use sweet little lies like skeleton keys to get inside of girls like me when all we want is to be loved and feel special and not so very alone. Things I Learned in the Night”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“I've always loved order; schedules, plans, ducks in a row. But you are scattered all over like rainbow pieces of a kaleidoscope and I'm starting to think there's something to be said for chaos.”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“He used to hold my face in his hands and say you’ll always be my Konstantine but he just knew the words, he didn’t know the meaning. He didn’t know one day I’d cut off my blonde hair and paint it black or cry in the mornings for no reason at all. We grew up we grew apart because forever is so easy at eighteen and so easy to forget by twenty-three. Konstantine, who?”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“I look at him and he looks right through me, as if he is trying to unsee me. As if I never even mattered just because I do not matter now. As if girls just give away love like a pile of worn clothes to charity, expecting nothing in return. The First Break”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“I left you out in the rain and just as I feared,  you complained about wet socks and matted hair and ruined shoes but never once exclaimed how great it was to be alive.”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“It could be worse doesn’t make it feel any better now, does it?”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“I once read something that went like this: “If you are looking for a sign to stay, here is your sign.” So I am just reiterating these words in case you haven’t heard them before: Stay”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“Listen, can you hear?


Your pain is telling you something.
Let go of what is hurting you.

--Listen”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“Come, let me be soft for you.
Let me show you something the world convinced you
you did not need and I promise,
you'll never want to go back
to a time when you did not know it.”
― Emily Juniper, Coming Home to Her

“You don't even remember, do you? Just some pretty words that slipped out after sex. Konstantine”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“If the river drowned you, would you say it was out of love? Was Vesuvius romantic just because two lovers died in each other’s arms, preserved in ash for all time? The answer to those questions is no, so why do we keep using love to justify pain? Love Does Not Hurt”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“It is an insult
to the world
to water yourself
down,
to shallow
your waters,
to dull your shine.

--Insult”
― Emily Juniper, A Strangely Wrapped Gift

“It’s funny how boring normalcy seems until it is ripped away. Things we take for granted”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing

“It was like watching a flickering candle near an open window; we knew our flame was going to burn out, we just didn’t know how long it would take. One year, two months, and seventeen days”
― Emily Juniper, Things I Learned in the Night : A collection of poetry about love, heartbreak, and healing