Arabella Leyla > Quotes

“ii wanted to be loved severely / so chronically it makes your heart ache / t’s risky to be hurt for you / but risk’s exactly why we were made”
― Arabella Leyla

“little do they know / that someone’s kinda crumbling / and they need someone who’s loud and quiet / to speak into their heart / loudly, when it’s not open enough to hear / quiet, when they’re much too tired to fear”
― Arabella Leyla

“yet she’s mine, for a moment / a short measure in time / stop and smell the roses / try the vanilla mocha drink / meet a stranger on the street / there’s a beauty hidden everywhere / if you get the chance to look / you just have to be forgiving / maybe turn your sorrows into a book”
― Arabella Leyla

“i write because it won’t stop / you never made my heart stop / i never felt anything for you at all / that doesn’t even begin to start the long list of lies i had to mop up”
― Arabella Leyla

“if we fell in love in october / would you still love me next fall? / would you still care about my ‘cute’ hair / though i’ve always been october…”
― Arabella Leyla

“my lips still long to repeat each line / that was less than mine / mispronounce, i always do / i ache to be heard without speaking too”
― Arabella Leyla

“i need you, happy birthday / but you don’t need me back / love you, happy birthday / I never knew love could be like that”
― Arabella Leyla

“i’ll try everything under the sun / i’ll swear this time i’m done / the seasons can’t hurt me / but the summer heat makes me feel dirty”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“you brought me back / when before i feared the only way that i could fit here / was in between the cracks / i was glass when you left me / told my diary i’m lonely / that i shattered / that i wasn’t like the art / all the aggression made me realize / to be glass is to have a heart”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“made up words and phrases / begging curing these emotional phases / cursing and screaming / you know, / my voice cracks when i’m hurting / so bad i can only be still”
― Arabella Leyla

“i’ll try forever / until i’m done / until i’ve regressed / you ruined me / but could you come back?”
― Arabella Leyla

“you’re speaking to me / and yet you’ve gone away / some troubles leave people reckless / and i recklessly wanted you to stay”
― Arabella Leyla

“you’re my favorite kind / you come out at night / just like my regret / sidewalk alight / my favorite guide / i’ll miss you tomorrow / when all i have is sunlight”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’ll beg against it, but it melts, / fades for the last time / that's when i became a mime / i used to have a trust / but this happens everytime / come back to me, i used to beg, / but it leaves till the end of the year / leaving me residing in summer’s impending fear / for some reason when i was young i grew accustomed / to white ground and the frigidness of being someone stubborn”
― Arabella Leyla

“the memories like towers / the storm like a home / similes and metaphors / but really i just wanted to truly know.”
― Arabella Leyla

“it was really sickening when you grabbed my arm / and you could see scars / but we didn't talk about them / rather all the things that would put us behind bars / stop looking at me like that / i’ll write how you were ridiculously mine / should’ve thought of that / before we watched each sunrise”
― Arabella Leyla

“i write to try to know what i felt / to lay out the cards i’ve been dealt / as if that will make them aces”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“Music so loud I can't hear my thoughts / Road so dirty I can't be unworthy”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i found it really repulsive when you showed me the stars / when you told me about mars / it's really disgusting how your friends knew my name when they first saw my face / as we talked about everyone's ugly cars / and i held in how i told mine about your face too / that i half-believed we were written in those hidden stars”
― Arabella Leyla

“silly clown / it’s silly like that / you know you need love to guide you / so why do you hate so much / especially of what you lack / you said you hated people like that”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i tried to lick a knife clean / but it just slit me / they said i’d forget about you / but i still slip you into my poetry”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“you’d always be in my heart / but i’m scared to admit / maybe it is as it seems / that the sentences i delete will always be the real me”
― Arabella Leyla

“for a moment, i’m just feeling / the things i’ve been wishing to / but it doesn't feel like acceptance / it doesn't feel like what i feel for you”
― Arabella Leyla

“if it’d made you happy / i'd share with you my every thought / they might tell you i’m a monster / but i guess that’s better than a robot”
― Arabella Leyla

“i wanted to be loved wildly / i suppose i always dreamt of being loved as much as you are loved by me”
― Arabella Leyla

“correct me if i’m wrong / but i swore it was enough for you / correct me if i’m wrong / but you knew i smiled just for you…”
― Arabella Leyla

“this night i packed up all my things / my clothes in a bag, my books in a suitcase / and as for my worried little pings / i shoved them in the duffel”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“it’s human to try / to have damp skin from the rain / and a hoodie with an oil stain / do you play with me because i’m vulnerable / ‘cause I get caught up in it all / or are you just another who acts thoughtless / to hide that they’re all thought”
― Arabella Leyla

“your room sounds even nicer from the parking spot / there’s a car next to yours / something in me gets caught / i sometimes wander in the memory of your touch”
― Arabella Leyla

“i hope you get sick when you think of me / in sickness and in health / that’s what we could be
/ but i leave you just as often as you leave me /
this sickness is a special kind of gravity”
― Arabella Leyla