Hard Love Quotes

“I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I was the stardust. He was the moonshine. The thing I need to sleep at night.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Masochists hold on to broken people. Artists hold on to broken memories.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“They say if the love is true, then it’s easy. But that’s false. Love is complicated. It’s sticky. It’s bliss and it’s a mix of emotions. It’s not easy.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You don’t need them. It’s that simple. But for some reason it’s complex. It’s difficult. It’s dangerous. We can’t seem to fathom it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I loved him to death. Then I came to realization with how arrogant he was and instead of falling out of love, I fell harder. Every passing day I fell a little harder, a little faster, and a little sadder. I became anxious, obsessive, hurt, and sad. But one morning I awoke to realize I fell out of it. I loved him. I still do. But I was in love with him until the death of the relationship. Now I just love him. From afar. From the knowledge. From the happiness an individual gave me.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“His eyes said what I cannot see.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I was bitter. He was sweet. And in a parallel universe, we were bittersweet.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“When you’re constantly abused, you don’t understand how emotionally and mentally draining it is. You’re truly immune and it feels like you need it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“When you always run back, they assume you’ll always come back. And guess what? You’re back because you came back the second, third, sixth, eighth, fifteenth time.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Instead of understanding my problems, he used them against me and that’s when I knew we weren’t quite right.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I wasn’t obsessed with him until I felt him fading. But maybe I was always obsessed, I just didn’t feel the anxiety of it until the trust was gone.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Fuck it. I didn’t love him, but then I did and I got lost in whatever I thought it was. Whoever I thought he was. It was confusing to say the least, but confusion soon makes sense and now I’m just standing here speechless.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“…and I kinda just fell into a whirlpool of nothingness. There I was, surrounded by black: no stars, no love, nothing at all.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We were complicated because we fit perfectly. Our stories aligned and grooves matched flawlessly. We shaded another with the loveliest night and lit each other with innocence. It was right. Everything was right.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“They say if the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve, but if he can’t see me and I can’t see him, why does that hurt me?”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I no longer feel him in the air so who knows if he still lingers here.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I love you, but there will be a dozen more too.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“reminiscing
the fists
your grasp
my skin
the touch
our feelings
thoughts
how we loved
without words
just emotions
and air”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The problem wasn’t that I loved him more than myself, it was that he loved himself more than I ever could.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I asked him to let go, but he was a god. He could control every emotion and even when I wanted, I couldn’t let go. He had everything, all of me, he possessed total control.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The idea is to live in the millisecond than a vague future.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Sipping on your blood, life, love, red wine; things I thought I liked.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“He’ll always be there, in the back of my mind. Maybe because I feel protective as if I’m his guardian angel, but it’s comical because I was the one to feel; to sense, comprehend, grasp and stand in a feeling so immense. Perhaps I wasn’t the one that had to be shown, but I had to be the one to show.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I thought I could salvage something that was beyond my reach, that was nonexistent. His heart had set voyage to the darkest crevice the universe has ever known.”
― Dominic Riccitello