Thoughts Quotes

Your worth is what you allow it to be.

~ Dominic Riccitello

His eyes said what I cannot see.

~ Dominic Riccitello

One day he’ll realize he is and was wrong. But that’s for him to figure out. You can’t change people or make them realize things they don’t want to see.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The truth is: I was lost in him. I had gone from losing one of the most important people in my life and then losing someone I loved a month later. I wrapped myself in people, in lust, in the idea of love. I met him and I met a gentlemen, and when I found out who he truly was, I was still in love with the gentleman and justified all of his actions.

~ Dominic Riccitello

They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We can’t be afraid to dismiss the unappreciative.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Three years later and I’m still writing about you. I don’t know if that says more about you or I.

~ Dominic Riccitello

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart.

~ Dominic Riccitello

When someone says they love you, don’t believe it. Love is shown with actions and not words.

~ Dominic Riccitello

When you complete yourself is when you can complete someone else.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Relationships aren’t meant to be based upon example. If you go with the flow all will come.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I write the right. I do the left.

~ Dominic Riccitello

If you’re in a relationship and find yourself constantly using “we” instead of “I” - stop. You are more than your relationship.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I remember things like dates down to minutes, what they smelled like, how they walked and how they tug their hands in their pockets. I twine myself in nostalgia of moments and not necessarily the people in them. I long for the idea of the past and occasionally forget the present. I find myself lost in memories, just looking to recreate the moment; forgetting the past is in the past and what we have is now.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Sometimes the anxiety takes over and I can’t seem to fathom the love he gives me.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

All of your fears and thoughts were mine, you were so scared but it was beyond divine.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

~ Sarah Kane

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

~ 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

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

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

The meaning of life is to die living it.

~ 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

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

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

~ Dominic Riccitello