Nicole Jakosalem > Nicole's Quotes

“those broken girls have the deepest love.”
― R.H. Sin

“the worst decisions are made under the shade of loneliness.”
― R.H. Sin

“a body betrayed
a heart destroyed
a mind in confusion
and yet a woman
is capable of taking pain
and transforming it into triumph”
― R.H. Sin

“you kill your future by mourning the past”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

“sometimes we wear masks so long
to hide what we truly feel
that those layers become
an extra skin, a part of our identity”
― R.H. Sin, Rest in the Mourning

“smiling with sad eyes I’ve seen what you’ve been hiding”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

“I don't like to open up to people
much. The more you do, the more
they don't understand. The
more frustrated you become,
the worse you feel.”
― R.H. Sin

“I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.”
― R.H. Sin

“it's funny how much a person's
true colors shine
after they've gotten
what they wanted from you”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words & a Shovel I

“Born to love, cursed to feel.”
― Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

“Perhaps the year and a half spent
trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me
Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it”
― Samantha King

“So often we are defined by what we've done
and the mistakes we've made
For once I would like to be
Measured by the steps I took today
Rather than the footprints of yesterday”
― Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist

“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp edges
of a knife. We have both lived with lips
more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we’d given up
on asking love to come. I think
that has to be part
of its miracle.
This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.

And I will not be afraid
of your scars.

I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
― Clementine von Radics

“All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.”
― Clementine von Radics

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You never need to apologize
for how you chose to survive.”
― Clementine von Radics

“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

“I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
― Clementine von Radics

“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

“What doesn’t kill you leaves disfiguring scars
What doesn’t kill you fills you with paralyzing self-hatred
What doesn’t kill you makes you an unfit mother  
What doesn’t kill you makes it all so hard
What doesn’t kill you wakes you up in the middle of the night
What doesn’t kill you turns you into an alcoholic
What doesn’t kill you makes you do unforgivable things to the people you love
What doesn’t kill you makes you afraid for the rest of your life
What doesn’t kill you might make you kill them”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.”
― Clementine von Radics

“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

“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, Mouthful of Forevers

“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

“What no one ever talks about is how dangerous hope can be.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“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, Mouthful of Forevers

“I am 22 and cryig because this new set of promises wants to kiss me, and I still taste like betrayal.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“In my struggle to survive I hurt others. Apologies do not make good bandages”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers