R. YS Perez Quotes

#1. Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have lived.

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#2. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

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#3. I hope these simple things are what I forever love about life, for then I will be happy no matter where I find myself.

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#4. It's scary how you can be haunted by someone who is still alive.

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#5. I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

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#6. Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

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#7. I wanted to say "don't leave me," but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.

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#8. I will show you all the ways in which you are easy to love.

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#9. Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

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#10. I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.

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#11. He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

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#12. This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.

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#13. This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.

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#14. She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.

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#15. I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

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#16. I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.

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#17. ...the hardest word to swallow is almost.

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#18. It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

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#19. People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.

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#20. The secret is love is a chaotic mess of every emotion we humans have given a name to.

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#21. My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.

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#22. And so instead, when you write, I hope you fall in love.

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#23. Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

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#24. But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

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#25. I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.

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#26. And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls for a pretty face.

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#27. I knew you didn't love me, but I dangerously adored you anyways.

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#28. Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as if she were the answer. She had become afraid to admit that she is not.

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#29. You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action.

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#30. You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.

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#31. I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

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#32. When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.

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#33. I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.

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#34. Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how I love him.

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