Catherine Anne Castillo > Quotes

“Sometimes, you lose somebody
to find that love
is meant to return home.

And now,
as I gather the ashes,
I know
I will live and love again,
but this time,
it will be me
who stands in the center
of that flame.
This time,
that love will be mine.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo, In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

“But that love was not meant to destroy me. It was meant to lift, to be the flame that kindles, not consumes.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo, In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

“Confusion was not unreasonable. He who adored every quirk, every breath, turned cold, hating me for the very things he once called sacred.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo, In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

“Those conflicts,
I was told I brewed,
mostly my fault, he said,
were never misunderstandings.
DARVO spun silk from venom,
twisting blame like a magician’s trick.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo

“What we shared was no mere heartache; it was a labyrinth, each twist echoing the next, and it takes more than walking away to be free.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo

“We were apart for nearly a month,
hearts pouring across thousands of miles,
each conversation a bridge spanning the distance,
until the day it was time to come home.
I was home, but this flight—
home became him.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo, In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place