Dominic Riccitello Quotes

Making love with strangers is how you get hurt.

~ Dominic Riccitello

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

~ Dominic Riccitello

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

~ Dominic Riccitello

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Masochists hold on to broken people. Artists hold on to broken memories.

~ Dominic Riccitello

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

~ Dominic Riccitello

They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Your intuition speaks on a higher plane than anything you’ll ever grasp.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He said he liked my rhythm. I said I liked his heartbeat, and it was within that moment I knew our corners would never meet.

~ Dominic Riccitello

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time.

~ Dominic Riccitello

It’ll always be mine, but it’ll always be your heart.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn’t agree. A person isn’t supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he’s wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world and it’s thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Stop making excuses for other people. For why they do certain things. For how they treat people or how they treat you. Giving excuse and justifcation gives defense which lets them act however they want. It allows them because you tolerated it. Don’t accept less than what you’re worth because you’re worth a lot.

~ Dominic Riccitello

It wasn’t good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The beauty was nothing made sense. We were complex. We were intricate. We were designed with flaws which seemed to make everything perfect. But the defining word is seem. We don’t see what’s in front of us until it’s away from us. Until it’s behind us. Until it doesn’t bother us. Sometimes things aren’t perfect, yet they appear to be. Sometimes life doesn’t make sense until it does. But it always does.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We love certain people until death. We love others until we don’t. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn’t necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That’s dangerous. Life isn’t about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.

~ Dominic Riccitello

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

~ Dominic Riccitello

You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.

~ 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

I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Life isn’t about building something with someone else. It’s about building something for a cause greater than yourself, but if someone comes along and they’re worthy enough, we let them build with us.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.

~ Dominic Riccitello

How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The thing with breaking up is they leave, but the memories stay.

~ Dominic Riccitello

You’re not supposed to be in a relationship because it’s comfortable, it’s supposed to be because they make you a better person.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I went into the new year loving myself in different ways, in a different possibility. It was then that I understood things I hadn’t. It was then that I understood people I hadn’t. We work in ways where sometimes we don’t align because our intersections lead us elsewhere. We find ourselves in rapids which lead to lightning, in beds that leave us homesick. We lust after the impetuous, in hopelessness, and sometimes in the reactive. We like things and people who are bad for us and that’s fine. It’s fine because it’s life. It happens. They exist. We exist. We all exist together in this world where nothing seems to make sense. Where everything is nothing but imaginary because it’s what we imagine it to be. Reality exists and it’s there, but life is what you make it. Your actions ask for it. How you exist is how you exist.We take every new year and give it a theme because we’re scared of how it could be. You change in the moment, not by years. You be to become and becoming is something which frightens people. Lead by example instead of letting the example lead you. Take this new year and find yourself in people who question it because questioning is how you gain from it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Mountains in the distance remind me of you.

~ Dominic Riccitello