They say we’re losing centimetresevery year; as if we werea beach that’s losingground with every salt advancethe night is overcastbut why not try, at least, to touch the things our orbitscannot hold, while there’s timewhile we can.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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Unknown
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself...
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Rob Sheffield
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
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Unknown
Why is the measure of love loss?
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Jeanette Winterson
More Quotes By Andrew McMillan
Loveis giving everything too easilythen staying to try and claw it back
Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.
Oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big, laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?
Finallya day will come whenwoken by the xylophoneof sunthroughblindsyou’ll realisethat the beach was not the placewhere horses tore the sandto ribbonthat the scent of him has liftedfrom the last of the sheetsthat he isn’t coming backthat it hasn’t rainedbut the birds are pretending that it...
They say we’re losing centimetresevery year; as if we werea beach that’s losingground with every salt advancethe night is overcastbut why not try, at least, to touch the things our orbitscannot hold, while there’s timewhile we can.
