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#1

“Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.”
― John Green

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#2

“After,
you stood there tucking in your shirt,
watching me cry in devastation.
For you, I was nothing.
And I
was nothing.”
― C. Streetlights, Tea and Madness

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#3

“When the sun rises and sets the world on fire, I will be sitting on the hill facing east. Holding my palms out to it, I'll catch the flame in my hands and I won't let it go out again this time.

I am passion again.”
― C. Streetlights, Tea and Madness

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#4

“I've learned that if I say "yes" to something I don't want, or is unimportant, I'm saying "no" to what is important to me.”
― C. Streetlights

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#5

“And here we are, a few years later. There you are and here I am. All of you are scattered in different places now. But I am still standing.

In spite of you.”
― C. Streetlights, Tea and Madness

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#6

“Loathing? Yes I know it well. I've heard its voice. I have felt its breathe. And sometimes, when I am very honest with myself, I can't tell the difference between It and Me.”
― C. Streetlights, Tea and Madness

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#7

“This is one of the many unspoken realities of surviving rape: not only do we survive the violations itself, but we endure the lifetime violation of dreams, memories, and personal identities.”
― C. Streetlights

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#8

“As a rape/sexual assault survivor I've found my voice won't be controlled in my writing. It is mine.”
― C. Streetlights

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#9

“Nobody wins a prize for being the most wretched.”
― C. Streetlights

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#10

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#11

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#12

“Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom.

It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt.

Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Pieces

tags: hurt, love, women

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#13

“I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.
I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.”
― Rachel Thompson, Broken Pieces

tags: cheating, love, men, women

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#14

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people

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#15

“She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: beauty, courage, empowered, gypsy-quotes, love, nicole-lyons, powerful-women, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rise, rise-up, she, she-is, she-of-the-darkest, she-will-rise, strong-women, strong-women-quotes

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#16

“She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: inspirational, motivational, rise, rise-quotes, rise-up, strong-women

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#17

“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: emotion, feelings, pain

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#18

“I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: life, life-lessons, life-quotes, motivation, motivational, nicole-lyons, passion, poetry-is-not-dead, poetry-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, strength, strong, strong-women, truth, unafraid

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#19

“If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: ignored, poetry, poetry-quotes

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#20

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: bipolar-disorder, bipolar-quotes, chaos, creativity, depression-quotes, life, life-quotes, madness, madness-and-sanity, manic-depression, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-illness, mental-illness-quotes, mind, mindfulness, mood-disorders, paranoia, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, racing-thoughts, self-deception, self-destruction, stigma, stillness-of-the-mind, suicidal-ideation, suicidal-thoughts

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#21

“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: beautiful-quotes, dance, dance-quotes, dancing, gypsy, gypsy-quotes, love, love-quotes, lovers, passion, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote-of-the-day, quotes, strong-women, wildfire

106 likes

#22

“I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: be-free, finding-oneself, finding-your-way, finding-yourself, girl, girl-quotes, growth, growth-quotes, happiness, hope, hopeful, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, life-lessons-quotes, live-in-the-moment, live-life, love, moving-on, moving-on-and-letting-go, poem, poetry, quote, quote-of-the-day, soul, soul-searching, stay-wild, truth, uncertainties-in-life, uncertainty, uncertainty-in-life, uncertainty-quotes, wanderlust

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#23

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: holding-on, leaving, leaving-a-relationship, letting-go, letting-go-quotes, life, life-lessons, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, nicole-lyons, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote, quote-about-life, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by

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#24

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: art, beautiful-quotes, beautiful-words, hope, leave-a-footprint, leave-a-legacy, leave-behind, love, love-me, love-quotes, love-you, passion, poetry, poetry-in-motion, poetry-quotes, poets-on-poetry, quote, quote-of-all-times, quote-of-the-day, quote-of-the-month, quote-of-the-week, soul, when-i-am-gone, word-porn, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes

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#25

“I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: pa, poetry, quotes, soul-quotes

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#26

“I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: holding-on, love, love-quotes, memories, nicole-lyons, popular-quotes, quote, quote-of-the-day, scars, word-porn

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#27

“Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: life, life-lessons, life-quotes, love, love-and-life-quotes, love-quotes, nicole-lyons, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, truth-and-lies, truth-quotes

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#28

“Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: nicole-lyons, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, soul, soul-quotes, word-porn, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by

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#29

“I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: life-lessons, loss, love, memories, nicole-lyons, poetry, poetry-is-not-dead, poetry-quotes, quote, quotes, shame

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