AVA. Quotes

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look.

you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you.

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more.

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.

i am changing
and i am loving change.

the hope is small
but it is everything.

woman--
another word for beginning.
another word for revolution.
another word for healing.
another word for being.
another word for me.

i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.

i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.

but if we all do that--
we can make a big difference.

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips.

you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.

every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.

and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.

you need to be careful with me.

i fall in love
and i fall in love forever.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.

i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.
i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.

let your love cover me like skin.
i want the whole world to see.

how beautiful you are
for never giving up on yourself,
for just waking up
and choosing to get out of bed.

seeing you own your life
and be so willing
to face it
over and over again
is so powerful,
you make me believe
anything is possible.

you make me believe
in heroes again.

we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.

i over love.
i under love.

i am either a flood
or i am nothing.

i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.

love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time.

my strength should not threaten you.
my strength is not a threat to your strength.
you are strong.
you are beautiful.
you are lush.
you are powerful.
as you are.
as i am.

imagine the force we would be together
if we lifted each other up.
imagine the force we would be together
if we didn't tear each other down.

let me tell you i'm in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this-- about what you mean to me.
let me take it there without ruining everything.

the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurting,
the healing,
the putting back together
is always too long.

some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.

i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.

hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.

i wanted to destroy you.

you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me.

you're going to love your way out of this.
out of the hurt.
out of the pain.

you're going to love your way out of it
and be free.

i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before.

keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

i am not a jealous person,
but when i am with you,
the thought of someone else
pulling your attention away from me
kills me a little inside
each time.

stay too close
and she will leave.
stay too far
and she will leave.

distance is too delicate a thing.

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything.

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two.