At 23 Quotes

“I would have taken a bullet for you.
It just never crossed my mind that you would be the one to shoot.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“These foggy futures
We have left unplanned
Is this how it ends
What we never began?”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“There will always be something between us, my darling, but even time can’t tell if it’s a bridge or a wall.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“Our hearts will somehow heal
Before the day is done
I am the one you get
Before you get the one

Both of us are travelers
Transients of our youth
I may be just a pit stop
But darling, so are you”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“You don’t have to be better for the one. You don’t have to be better when you’re the one.
You found someone you were enough for.
And despite my best efforts, I can’t hate you for that.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“Is the price of success an empty heart
To pour just one glass of champagne
Oh this huge warm mansion of gilded art
And no one to kiss in the rain”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“The roses are roses, but the arsenic is still arsenic.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“This mind that bloomed roses from arsenic looks pretty to you and everyone else who doesn't live in it.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“Because I refuse to believe we become better by being hurt. Sometimes we just get hurt. And that's it.
This mind that bloomed roses from arsenic looks pretty to you and everyone else who doesn't live in it.
The roses are roses, but the arsenic is still arsenic.
And when my mind comes and kills me every night... I don't care if you like my mind.
I don't.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I did not believe in permanence until I couldn’t see a photo of me without your face in it.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“You are more than you think
You are peace and war and sea
You’re open sky and closed door
And you matter to me”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“You being here has exposed all the deficiencies I covered in pride, all the wounds screaming for relief, all the lack I’d learned to live without. Because now I am with… I have.
My greatest fear then was having nothing. Only now that I have you that I know my greatest fear… is having something to lose.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“So wake up, my dear darling
I’m broken, can’t you see?
The least of what you deserve
Is asking too much of me”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“No trust, no fall, thus no hurt
The hover, I know so well
The recoil before the touch
My fear is heavenly hell”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I don’t want to be happy for you but I am. Because for all the years I heard I was too much, you heard that you weren’t enough.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I want to take credit for the joy you give her, as if it was the joy you stole from me.
But that’s not entirely true.
With how quickly you replaced me, I don’t believe you’ve changed that much. It’s easier to think that the version of you that she got was the same version I kissed.
The only difference… is her.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I tell myself how I have worth
I love myself, I do
But even the greatest of me;
Is a shadow of loving you”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“Kindness is the thing I ask now
To kill your longing and my wrath
Don't look at me with those brown eyes
My heart still lies on your behalf”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I want to stab you with the broken pieces of the heart you left me, but every time I pick them up, I bleed.”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23