Austin-Alexius Klein > Quotes

“People fall in love with people they've never met. People fall in love with ghosts, with serial killers. Sometimes only once, sometimes many times. People risk death for love, believing love transforms and conquers all.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I begged you to abduct me, but you couldn't take me with you. I saw you exploding in the sky. Growing. Despite being destroyed. Overflowing with lightning and soft pearls spilling from each of your wounds.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I want to sit in a church full of all the bloody stained glass flickering in the light of the sun as I dip my hands, my feet, and head into the fire.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I was not ready, but it does not mean I didn't still love you when I was driving back to North Dakota. I was not ready, but it does not mean I didn't feel you, every time I was in the arms of someone else... I was not ready to face the overwhelming doubt telling me I was not ready--to go back to where I came from.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“He belongs to no one. He belongs to the dancefloor.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I was so afraid when I saw you. I did not get the chance yet, to bloom.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I never forget their faces, or how they died... Burned alive. Burned alive with everything they ever wrote. Poetry. What would it be like to read their poetry?”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“The panic as I drowned in your love which I thought would have died from years of neglect. But came out only stronger like the wrath of God raining down on me. A guardian angel pulling me out of a burning wreck.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“Our hearts were glowing. Streaming RED. As he pulled the trigger... Headshots. Ripped apart. Unrecognizable. Faces that had been kissed. Pulverized. Brothers and sisters. Without a pulse... We were finished, utterly destroyed. And they were satisfied that they had shattered our pride.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“They will see my pride burning so brightly, though it was confined to a box. My hand will once again be held, warm in the grasp of another. For I was not ready to be forsaken into the earth. I was born in the hot, unforgiving sun, and I finally know my purpose in life. For though I was buried alive, and nobody thought to check on me, I had learned to love again.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I didn't know when I first saw you bloom it would be the last time I felt such passion. So much that I damaged your petals and tore you by the root.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“It haunts me like a whisper of radio static between songs, or repeated missed calls from an unknown number.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“Shattered glass, drops of blood on the dancefloor. Glitter in my wounds. I didn't notice how badly I was bleeding. People gathered to watch the spectacle but I didn't stop dancing and I didn't care who watched.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“Then all at once he was writhing, shrinking. Having built himself up for nothing. Before he was smothered in the sand, he realized that everything he had tasted was sour. And all he had seen were lies. So near the sun, he reveled in its warmth before it all came down.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“Some are forced to bloom alone, undisturbed and unrecognized, like a flicker of lightning that never makes a sound.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I had been created to be invisible or destroyed.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I don't want to believe that love could ever be lost even though it may be mangled, bruised and distorted through the experience of loss.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein

“Your love would be my lighthouse, guiding me through death.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I hoped you would spare me but you were looking right at me. I did not need to bloom for you to see I was beautiful.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I was not incomplete when I tore myself in two.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I am writing to console the part of me I lost somewhere between the moment of birth and death that keeps me searching and bound forever inside these ruins. I am writing to preserve the fragment of sensitivity that has survived, like a falling star that keeps burning despite the relentless pressure of the atmosphere to disintegrate into the calm blue void.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“Even if there are billions of lights dying alone in the sky, we are reborn forever.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited

“I want to love the world even if others hate it. I want to save the world even if others more powerful destroy it.”
― Austin-Alexius Klein, Harm Unlimited