Top 63 Amanda Lovelace Quotes
#1. he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here. - i thank the universe every day for you.
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#2. it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.
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#3. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
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#4. i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II
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#5. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.
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#6. where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?
"- did it really happen if i can't remember it?
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#7. fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.
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#9. Somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever had the chance to meet.
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#10. the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.
- period, end of story.
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#11. i'm not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i'm much more scared
of the boys
with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,
& mouths
that only know
how to form
half-truths.
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#12. just because they don't hit you doesn't mean it isn't abuse. wouldn't you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse.
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#13. that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. -
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#14. be wary
of the boys who
only ever tell
half-thruths
because they
will only ever be
half in love
with you
-slay those dragons
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#15. your death certificate makes the claim that you died on november 3rd at 3:03 AM. that is a lie. you died long before that. - 3 isn't my lucky number anymore.
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#16. i have to
believe
the day
will come
where i don't
flinch
whenever
i hear
his name.
- some names will always be cursed.
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#17. revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey
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#20. he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.
-my personal pen and paper
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#21. The pain did not make me a better person. It did not teach me not to take anything for granted. It did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone.
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#22. if
love
is a
battlefield,
then i
must have
forgotten
all of
my armor
at home.
-a war i never agreed to fight
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#23. the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.
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#24. i'm sorry
if i
wasn't
the daughter
you had
in mind
-i only ever wanted to make you proud-
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#25. if you
don't want to
end up in
someone else's
poem,
then maybe
you should
start
treating
people
better
for
a
change.
- an unapologetic poet.
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#26. I was the one thing
he had to deny--
the beautiful truth
within his
terrible lie.
-who knew such a young heart could shatter?
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#27. when you're taught to see the world through fire, nothing looks safe.
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#28. i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar
-an ode to me
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#29. There
was never
enough alcohol
to keep my mother warm
in a house
as cold as
t h i s.
- but you kept trying, didn't you?
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#30. i have
so much love
to give,
but no one
ever wants
it.
- a cup overfilled.
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#31. death wound itself around her bones like a piece of red ribbon.
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#32. blood blooming underneath the stinging bite of steel. II.
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#33. What happens when your dreams are nightmares stuck on repeatrepeatrepeat?
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#35. it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
sometimes
a bit of both.
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#36. i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you. - still hoping for sugar instead of salt.
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#37. you will think
your parents are
shatterproof
until one day
you find out
they aren't.
- what it really means to lose your innocence
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#38. when
he left,
he
packed up
all my
poetry
took it
with
him.
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#41. i
let myself
know
that my life
doesn't
have to be over
just because
theirs are
& i went
ahead
& painted
the sun
back into
my sky.
I am allowed to live my life.
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#43. i had a
big smile
on my face
as i burned
the bridges
to all the things
i could not
repair
-does the smoke still choke you?
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#44. a
world
where all
human beings
are taken care of
shouldn't be called
a "revolutionary"
way of life
yet
it is.
-burn
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#45. you have
been the
star
of each
every
one of
my
nightmares.
"- you left but you stayed.
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#46. i'm pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. - women are some kind of magic.
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#47. your happiness
comes before
anyone else's
happiness
-the real meaning of "self-respect.
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#48. if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word "no" & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. - "no" is short for "fuck off."
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#49. all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.
-Startling Fact #1
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#50. When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract.
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#51. my boy?
he is even
better than
books.
-fiction has nothing on you.
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#52. repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.
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#53. i used to think
i was broken
because
i never once
spent my
daydreams
plucking
swollen pomegranates
from
someone else's tree.
- then i learned that society is broken, not me.
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#54. the doctor
hesitated
before
breaking the news
to her.
"those aren't
stars.
it's cancer."
- forty years a smoker
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#55. grief clung to her like an old, itchy, faded, ill-fitting, hand-me-down dress.
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#56. the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn't realize i could be my own knight.
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#57. Sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. -
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#58. when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives - a bookmad girl never dies.
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#59. once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. How's that for a happily ever after?
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#60. He loves me
he loves me not
He loves her
He loves her not
He loves me
He loves me not
-I ran out of petals
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#61. raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts.
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#62. if a house
does not
automatically
make a home,
then a body
doesn't
automatically
make a home
either.
-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin.
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#63. You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together.
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