delicate

[connotativewords]

July 17, 2013

Our love was comfortable and so broken in.

[thehopefulquotes]

“Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.”

— Javan

[paper-fairy]

“I have kisses for the back of your neck.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems (1999); “Briar Rose,”

[connotativewords]

“When you get ahold of something you want to keep forever, you can never get a good night’s sleep once you realize how easily it can be taken away from you.”

— Connotativewords | jl | Insomnia

[connotativewords]

You’re the one I will always miss.

[connotativewords]

“I was the wall of a cliff. You were the still sea. And I’ve lost count of how many sunsets I’ve prayed to for even the slightest gust of wind, just so there’d be a chance that you’d crash into me.”

— Connotativewords | jl | let us be

[connotativewords]

“When I taste you, I forget about every bad break in my bones. Every ounce of bitterness abandons my blood. I want you to rest easy and make yourself at home. What I’m trying to say is – if you were the Queen of Hearts, I would give anything to be your throne.”

— Connotativewords | jl | Your Majesty

[connotativewords]

“You could be right here sleeping safely in my arms and I’d still miss you.”

— Haiku on Proximity [ jl ]

[fawnaura]

“Love’s merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.”

— Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love, “Stolen Moments” 

[connotativewords]

It wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t a facade. I just saw so much good in you that your worst never stood a chance.

[starlightacademia]

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

— Tennessee Williams, from The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via starlightacademia)

[suckbabe]

are you thinking of me

[lcsagony]

"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."

-Ernest Hemingway

[connotativewords]

“Loved you once. Lost you twice.”

— Connotativewords | jl | On my mind, Out of sight 

[connotativewords]

“I feel like my life is falling away from me Like this body is no longer my own And you’re just a memory Maybe I’m a ghost And I was in misery Maybe this is all deja vu And I’ll come to find That the world would turn the same With or without me”

— Connotativewords | Semblance of sleep

[connotativewords]

“I was once told that I could speak my dreams into existence. I haven’t been able to shut up about you ever since.”

— Connotativewords | jl | laws of distraction

[connotativewords]

“I wanted you more than ever – despite knowing I wasn’t supposed to. And that became more important than any good deed I’d ever done.”

— Connotativewords | jl | Impulses