Prose Quotes

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every nightBecause now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are peoplewatchingand I just want to be somewhere silentsomewhere stillBut still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonelyand I don’t understandBecause I was alone my whole lifeMy whole lifeI was so damn lonely and I was content with thatbecause I liked myself and my own company and I didn’t need anyoneI thoughtBut then there was you .. ...So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,Because I lost myself to someone I loveand I might get myself back one daybut it will take time, it will take time.This is gonna take some time.I wish someone would have told me this.Someone should have told me this.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

~ Lewis Carroll

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth...

~ Muse

Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen, otherwise you’ll stay in the same damn place you’ve always been, and until you know there is so much more awesomeness in the world and within you, you’ll be content in your tiny cocoon, spinning the same circles day in and day out. Your struggles are transforming you.

~ Melody Lee

We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret hanging round your neck. I imagined tiny photographs: portraits in sepia of your parents, their faces partially obscured by goitres. Meanwhile, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, maybe not even in a decade from now but one day: the planet would fall apart.

~ Jon Gresham

And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background. Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.Run, I said.

~ Tahereh Mafi

It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere – us – I know I have a chance.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.

~ Jon Gresham

Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are,all useless.

~ Akash Lakhotia

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

~ Ava

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

~ Ava

the hope is smallbut it is everything.

~ Ava

Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.

~ Akash Lakhotia

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

~ Herman Melville

i took a night drive.i needed to get away.i needed to knowit's okay to goand have no destination,where time moves slowor doesn't exist.that life can be like this,aimless wandering,just breathing,living,driving forever underneath the stars.

~ Ava

i am changingand i am loving change.

~ Ava

every choice i have ever made after you existedhas been dependent on exactlyhow close i can have you next to meand how long i can get you to stay.

~ Ava

i am soft again.there is water and it surrounds me.there is feeling and i can feel it.i am awake and aliveand swollen and heavy with love.i am changingand i am loving change.

~ Ava

i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun.

~ Ava

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future,as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

~ Ava

i know it all ends the same,but i was interested in seeinghow you would break my heart.

~ Ava.

i open for you like a flower.i let you in like a new day.

~ Ava

you need to be careful with me.i fall in loveand i fall in love forever.

~ Ava

let me tell you i'm in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this-- about what you mean to me.let me take it there without ruining everything.

~ Ava

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.

~ Ava

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.

~ Ava

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?

~ Ava

keep following your heart.it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

~ Ava

i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.

~ Ava

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

~ Ava

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

~ Ava

i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.

~ Ava

they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

~ Ava

i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.

~ Ava

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

~ Ava