Dominic Riccitello Quotes

Some people you’re not meant to get over.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I think if we stop running towards broken arms, we’d all be just fine.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Don’t allow people to come in and out of your life when it only benefits them.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I became to understand you and all of you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I’m not thankful for being fucked over, I’m thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me be in that moment - not with them, but with myself. How my emotions could surrender to someone and make me feel everything I felt. It destroyed me, but I made my way through; and I look back years from, and I still love him, I do.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

~ Dominic Riccitello

His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable.

~ Dominic Riccitello

There was no unknown. He loved me and I loved him. There was no question, no doubt, no uncertainty, which perhaps caused us to lose ourselves indefinitely and enter a void so permanent. One where we stood with such confidence, which sounds lovely; but when you believe you have everything, you simply lose everything.

~ Dominic Riccitello

What if I were to wish upon a blood moon that I could have you standing here and I standing there? And when it happens to arrive in eighteen years, that you’ll be there, waiting for me like I’ll be waiting for you. As we did on the night where the moon shined down and I saw you standing in white with eyes that could ignite and a fire which couldn’t quite die.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The meaning of life is to die living it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Wrote you a poem or two. You didn’t enjoy them, but I did for you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I'm accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We were one, even in the darkest corner.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

~ Dominic Riccitello

I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I never expected to fall in love. I never expected to float or fall a thousand feet and create the crevice I called my life. But the thing with crevices, there’s always a top and always a bottom. And the feeling of appreciation when you look from the top and understand how fast it can all come crashing down — it’s more than beautiful and more than words could ever explain.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future.

~ Dominic Riccitello

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

~ Dominic Riccitello

I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I loved you, I did. I believe I even sold myself a bit: on your love, my lust, your hair and just the way we stood there. How the air smelled of you, the way your shirt was cursed with blues. The way we danced by the ocean in front your mini-garden. The white fence, your loveliness and the heavenly kisses. It’ll always be the sheets, lying beside, holding your arm and kissing your hair in a loving stride.

~ Dominic Riccitello

You don’t get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it’s yours and no longer theirs.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Loving you was hard, wanting you was harder, but kissing your forehead was insanity.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.

~ Dominic Riccitello

You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I see you in every passing moment.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it.

~ Dominic Riccitello