repent and relive.

— James Frey

“ my heart cracked inside my body. ” “ no one is coming in and no one is getting out. ” “ i deserved someone who was willing to stay.” “ a dozen different thoughts tear through me each second. ” “ i envy the winds who still witness you. ” “ i could be anything in the world. ” “ but i wanted to be his. ” “ what does love look like? ” “ i realized how naive i have been. ” “ i’m about to get up and walk right out the door. ” “ you cannot walk in and out of me like a revolving door. ” “ you took the sun with you when you left. ” “ when you plunged the knife into me you also began bleeding. ” “ you will suffer the way you make me suffer. ” “ i think my body knew you would not stay. ” “ your absence is a missing limb. ” “ it must be hard to live with what ifs. ” “ how did we live through it and how are we still living? ” “ i can tell when you’re lying. ” “ the person i fell in love with was a mirage. ” “ i notice everything i do not have. ” “ i hardened under the last loss. ” “ all i dream is to soften. ” “ i barely feel like living. ” “ why are you so unkind to me? ” “ you are waiting for someone who is not coming back. ” “ i was the warmest place you knew. ” “ you turned me cold. ” “ the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time. ” “ you must see no worth in yourself. ” “ worth is not something we transfer. ” “ growth is a process. ” “ your actions are not my responsibility. ” “ it’s okay to let others help pick up the pieces. ” “ i do not weep because i’m unhappy. ” “ i have everything and yet i am unhappy. ” “ nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you. ” “ all you own is yourself. ” “ you have already rotted. ” “ there is nothing left for me to do. ” “ what if nothing wants me because i do not want me? ” “ i am both the poison and the antidote. ” “ i have survived far too much to go quietly. ” “ my death will be grand. ” “ all i’ve ever known is pain. ” “ never feel guilty for starting again. ” “ i am the ghost of ghosts. ” “ there is god in you. ”  

“ love looks like dandelions in bloom. ” “ say this pain will pass. ” “ your soul , so soft and full of shuddering. ” “ they found your bones piled in the dark fern bushes. ” “ you’ve never been the same since. ” “ you were brought home but a part of you is still there. ” “ anything besides this great, terrible silence born of feeling unalive. ” “ you have returned. ” “ i have come for you. ” “ you are too blinding  , i don’t want to look. ” “ this is a dream from which i know i will wake. ” “ i will lend you my shoulders and my hands. ” “ i don’t have strength in me to touch anyone yet. ” “ i’ve kept you waiting for too long. ” “ let’s embrace as equals. ” “ we dream of moments like this. ” “ can you feel how your withered heart opens up? ” “ it’s ready to heal. ” “ you feel not like a human but like a piece of the wild , burning sky. ” “ close your eyes and catch snowflakes on your tongue. ” “ have you let go of the ails that anchor you yet? ” “ in a forest clearing we stand around the bonfire we built ourselves. ” “ your sorrows and my sorrows are ashes. ” “ my spine is softer now , but still strong. ” “ in the right kind of light , we look like sparrows. ” “ in the right kind of dark , our hipbones become hollows where angels rest. ” “ we must always risk crashing into the rough land so that we may kiss the clouds. ” “ you’re wild like a dream is wild and bright like a dream is bright. ” “ when we think awestruck , we mean you. ” “ when we think you , we mean liberated. ”  “ you become the rush of air under a blue jay’s wing. ” “ people who don’t know will try to tell you that it feels like a fist to the jaw. ” “ they don’t know the truth of it. ” “ oh , how beautiful you are. ” “ promise me you will always be shining like this. ” “ fleeing like a ghost afraid of the light any time someone speaks your name. ” “ you can be a comet tearing open the sky if you want. ” “ never let them drain the river of your soul. ” 

“ i promise that there’s beauty and hope inside you. ” “ in the beginning , there was only sunflowers and unmined salt. ” “ then the good lord said , let there be blood. ” “ this is why we have teeth. ” “ we will grow into our skin like kings grow into their kingdoms. ” “ a lion’s hunger for flesh is the same as your hunger for love. ” “ we are all born wild , beautiful , and starving. ” “ we are always waiting for that moment. ” “ everyone you touch burns like a blue star. ” “ reeds would become swords if you asked. ” “ hope is synonymous with armor on your tongue. ” “ all the hymns are truly warsongs. ” “ what does forgiveness mean? ” “ it means kiss me. ” “ we are all holy. ” “ there is no reason to be afraid of what comes next. ” “ you always loved brambles, even when they tore the skin of your hands to pieces. ” “ the room smells a little like smoke. ” “ your body becomes something beyond itself. ” “ your heart is a memory of what is yet to come. ” “ you grow from a mustard seed into a bright gold bloom. ” “ we can leave the battles unspoken. ” “ you’ve worried over them enough. ” “ it’s beautiful , the way you reclaim your heart from its ashes. ” “ the sunrise reclaims you too. ” “ the sparrows sing dark blue lullabies. ” “ both of you feel a little freer. ” “ i hope you aren’t ashamed to love me. ” “ i have loved you shamelessly since before you were stardust. ” “ the holiest truth of them all is hunger. ” “ our bellies ache for the sharp , sun-shaped taste of the divine. ” “ our souls ache to get drunk on chilled , blessed blood. ” “ no one is watching us but god. ” “ they feel we are too much. ” “ what does it mean to love something you can’t touch? ” “ every atom in you is a small note of music. ” “ you are a song , a symphony in progress. ” “ is it not beautiful? ” “ you have a lovely smile. ” 

Catherynne M. Valente

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