AVA. Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love.

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#4. 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.

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#5. i am changing
and i am loving change.

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

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

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

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#8. the hope is small
but it is everything.

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#9. stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.

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#10. show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin.

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#11. my feelings tend to last longer
than my lovers do
and it's made a monster
out of my heart.

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#12. i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.

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

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

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#15. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.

you have the power to choose.

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#16. they say people only hear what they want to hear,
but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

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#17. 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.

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#18. you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you.

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

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#20. you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.

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

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#22. i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone.

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

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

i've never been able to separate the two.

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#25. let the stars inside you breathe,
before the darkness swallows them whole.

let them burn through your skin and light this
whole goddamn world on fire.

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#26. 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.

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#27. i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane.

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#28. do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love.

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#29. i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.

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#30. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it.

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

i am changing
and i am loving change.

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#31. 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.

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#32. you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.

you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.

there are no lines
that can hold you.

there are not enough words
for all the more that you are.

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

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

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#35. i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace?

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

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#37. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break.

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#38. 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.

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

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

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#41. you need to be careful with me.

i fall in love
and i fall in love forever.

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#42. 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.

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

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

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#44. i over love.
i under love.

i am either a flood
or i am nothing.

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

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

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

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

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#48. we talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that.

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#49. it is hard not to count the hours
i have left with you.

it is hard to be here now--
knowing everything between us
will come to an end.

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

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

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

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#53. 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.

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

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#55. i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.

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

distance is too delicate a thing.

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#57. i wanted to destroy you.

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

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#58. the woman is rain,
and when she falls,
she is a monsoon.
to love her is to drown.

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#59. 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.

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

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#61. oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.

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#62. i would've done anything to make you happy.
i think you knew that.

i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

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

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