Chapped Lips & Coffee Eyes

Little bit of chaos, little bit of love

[poemswords]

“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via books-n-quotes)

[poemswords]

“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”

— Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica (via books-n-quotes)

[lhzthepoet]

To say we die once is a mistake. The heart can stop with a word. In pieces we lose the lives we could have lived.

Before Midnight #6 // L.H.Z

[thewinedarksea]

(some) quotes about love & wanting

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[tristamateer]

“My strength is defined / not by what I continue to carry / but by what I have allowed myself / to put down.”

— Trista Mateer

[tristamateer]

“We’ve all dug a grave or two just to see what it would feel like to stay.”

— from “Hometown Gothic” by Trista Mateer, in Poetry Is Undead (via cgcpoems)

[lifeinpoetry]

“You do not know / How little I loved / Before I loved you.”

— Joan Naviyuk Kane, from “Love Poem,” Hyperboreal

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Where you were, there was my home.”

— Janet Fitch, from “White Oleander,” originally published c. July 1999

[sunbathe]

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[arivers610]

“I got my answers but none of my problems are solved so really all I have are more questions.”

— D. all of the above

[poems-and-word]

“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art …was supposed to make you feel something.”

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park (via books-n-quotes)

[juansendizon]

“Falling in love with someone who makes you feel like anything is possible is so wonderful. Appreciate the feeling while it lasts. Let that person make you happy.”

— Juansen Dizon

[tylerknott]

“Delicate we stir, new rhythms in these old sheets, quiet hands on skin.”

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

[books-n-quotes]

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (via books-n-quotes)

[somepiecesofmyheartandsoul-deac]

“You woke me up in the dead of the night just to drown me in the mysteries that roamed in your mind. I love sleep but I surely, truly, love you more.”

— Lukas W. // You over sleep

[lhzthepoet]

Some people are born to raise wolves not run from them.

Midnight Excerpts #38 // L.H.Z

(via lhzthepoet)

[eikadan]