Nothings Quotes

“silly clown / it’s silly like that / you know you need love to guide you / so why do you hate so much / especially of what you lack / you said you hated people like that”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“lipstick stains and fractured hearing / eyeliner smudges and too deeply feeling / you know, / i shut up when my heart goes brittle / you know that happens a lot / i still lose it all when i’m lost a little”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“so i write books / every single day / and try to give myself a say / but i’ve never had one anyway”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i still don’t know what i felt after all this time / they haven’t made enough words / haven't committed enough crime / haven't been desperate enough to put this kind of feeling into a simple line”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i write to try to know what i felt / to lay out the cards i’ve been dealt / as if that will make them aces”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“you brought me back / when before i feared the only way that i could fit here / was in between the cracks / i was glass when you left me / told my diary i’m lonely / that i shattered / that i wasn’t like the art / all the aggression made me realize / to be glass is to have a heart”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“because i could swear that you don't care /
but now i’m wearing your coat / and it makes me feel warm / not because of the fleece / so i give you that second chance you asked for / because i didn’t know”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“you’re my favorite kind / you come out at night / just like my regret / sidewalk alight / my favorite guide / i’ll miss you tomorrow / when all i have is sunlight”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’ll arrive in your heart someday / it’s a timeless lie / i’m sure it’s been promised before / and then the promises die”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’ll arrive in your heart someday / maybe in 9 / i'll finally get to class on time / but i know it's not true / i'm never enough, not even to earn sleep / i haven't done my homework / i can barely do 2 times 3”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’d give up lots of things / unlike what i can do for me / stop shoving what i think i should be / so viciously down my own throat”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’ll try everything under the sun / i’ll swear this time i’m done / the seasons can’t hurt me / but the summer heat makes me feel dirty”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i deleted each word i wrote for you / each thing you never knew / you can’t swallow this, but i wish on it you’d just choke / i feel so nauseous at the fact that you know”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“how you risk a smile / knowing full well you want to not it give away / any sense of emotion / what if it’s not perfect, it gets taken away? / what if it doesn’t stay?”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i tried to lick a knife clean / but it just slit me / they said i’d forget about you / but i still slip you into my poetry”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“selfish for someone / caring far too much what i look like in your head / i secretly hope i remind you of red / of certainty and having a real friend / the calm of wearing your favorite shirt /i hope i’m the blue bird you see clinging to the branch / that reminds you not everyone wants you to get hurt”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i keep that moment in my wallet / it’s a weight off my shoulders / it’s quiet after screaming / it’s everything i’ve been needing / it’s calm after panic attacks / it’s being literal after vague”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“poetry, to overthink / i’m weird and contradicting / i’m staring at the ceiling / are words even worth reading / is explaining worth the arguing / ‘i get it’ you say slowly / art is a certain kind of despair called lonely”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“she’s telling me i'm doing poorly / it’s never-ending / somehow losing the game i created / choosing the wrong one when befriending”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“this night i packed up all my things / my clothes in a bag, my books in a suitcase / and as for my worried little pings / i shoved them in the duffel”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“Music so loud I can't hear my thoughts / Road so dirty I can't be unworthy”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection