Quotes About Radics

#1. But my heart is an old house
(the kind my mother
grew up in)
hell to heat and cool
and faulty in the wiring
and though it's nice to look at
I have no business
inviting lovers in.

Clementine Von Radics

#2. There Is A Lion In My Living Room
I feed it raw meat
so it does not hurt me.
It is a strange thing
to nourish what could kill you
in the hopes it does not kill you.

Clementine Von Radics

#3. God I want you
in some primal, wild way
animals want each other.
Untamed and full of teeth.
God I want you,
In some chaste, Victorian way.
A glimpse of your ankle
just kills me.

Clementine Von Radics

#4. It's just so strange.
You used to love me,
and now you're a stranger
who happens to know all
of my secrets.

Clementine Von Radics

#5. Here's the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else.

Clementine Von Radics

#6. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.

Clementine Von Radics

#7. I said, I love you
when I meant something much
more specific, I should have said,
Please don't leave me,
I'm afraid to sleep alone.

Clementine Von Radics

#8. Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.
Then use that bullet.

Clementine Von Radics

#9. He used to love me, and now he's just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets.

Clementine Von Radics

#10. If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name.

Clementine Von Radics

#11. I am terrified
I will break his heart
just because I feel restless;
because it is between me
and what I hunger for

Clementine Von Radics

#12. Now may be a good time to go on a long journey. The stars think you need to clear your head. The stars think you need to run.

Clementine Von Radics

#13. No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.

Clementine Von Radics

#14. All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.

Clementine Von Radics

#15. Drowning people often believe that if they grab hold of someone else they can be saved, but that just makes you both sink faster.

Clementine Von Radics

#16. My battered heart will always be
where the ocean meets the sand, I
will break over and over
Every day. That is the best and
worst part of me.

Clementine Von Radics

#17. I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles.

Clementine Von Radics

#18. I stopped going to my therapist
Because I knew my therapist
was right, and I wanted
to keep being wrong.

Clementine Von Radics

#19. I don't know why
I've got so much hope
pinned to someone who will never call me home.

Clementine Von Radics

#20. Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.

Clementine Von Radics

#21. There is a river running through this city and every time my best friend laughs I want to grab him by the shoulders and shout Grow old with me and never kiss me on the mouth! I want to spend the next eighty years together, eating Doritos and riding bikes.

Clementine Von Radics

#22. I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.

Clementine Von Radics

#23. The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

Clementine Von Radics

#24. When he offers his lips, go for his throat.

Clementine Von Radics

#25. I brought a knife to the gunfight.
I am the knife.
I am all blade.

Clementine Von Radics

#26. Apologies do not make good bandages.

Clementine Von Radics

#27. When will I sop belonging
to this hungry thing inside of me?

Clementine Von Radics

#28. I was not good
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together)

Clementine Von Radics

#29. IV. There is a certain kind of girl who reads Lolita at fourteen and finds religion. I painted my eyes black and sucked barroom cherries to red my tongue. There was a boy who promised Judas really did love Jesus. I learned early every kiss and betrayal are up for interpretation.

Clementine Von Radics

#30. I'm scared you will realize I'm just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.

Clementine Von Radics

#31. We are not in love. Not the way I've been told
being in love feels like. But we have been sleeping
beside each other for so many nights and I
am the most beautiful doormat you have ever
walked over.

Clementine Von Radics

#32. You never need to apologize
for how you chose to survive.

Clementine Von Radics

#33. When the poems don't come, don't open the vodka.

Clementine Von Radics

#34. Let it heal you. Lie beside a man who's hands you trust

Clementine Von Radics

#35. Everyone else isn't you. It turns out that's a huge problem for me.

Clementine Von Radics

#36. People like us are not good with words.
What we mean gets muddled and wrong
somewhere between our minds
and our mouths.

We make art to say how we feel.

Here: These are the chords
to Make You Feel My Love.

Clementine Von Radics

#37. You are on the floor crying,
and you have been on the floor crying
for days.
And that is you being brave.
That is you getting through it
as best you know how.
No one else can decide
What your tough looks like.

Clementine Von Radics

#38. I cannot believe her when she says
I am beautiful. She cannot want me,
not the way I want her. My want
is an Empire State Building
I monster-climb with her
clutched in my fist. They make old,
flickering horror movies
about the way I look at her mouth.

Clementine Von Radics

#39. I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.

Clementine Von Radics

#40. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing

Clementine Von Radics

#41. Getting everything you ever wanted does not make you want less

Clementine Von Radics