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“She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly.”
― The Hazards of Good Breeding
― The Hazards of Good Breeding
“Share yourself with me.
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here
only to love you.”
―
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here
only to love you.”
―
“And it all comes out so lame. I love your mouth. I love your hair. I love your ears. I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“You’re lonely,” they say,
but it doesn’t scare me
anymore
for it teaches me,
and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I don’t break mirrors anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I can finally stand myself,
and I never thought I would.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
but it doesn’t scare me
anymore
for it teaches me,
and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I don’t break mirrors anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I can finally stand myself,
and I never thought I would.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
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