Black Butterfly Quotes

“We must always welcome the end of all things. For sometimes knowing nothing lasts forever is the only way we can learn to fall in love with all the moments, and all the people, that are meant to take our breath away.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Chaos,
leave me never,
keep me wild
and keep me free
so that my
brokenness will be,
the only beauty
the world will see.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“She was in love,
but not in love with
someone or something;
she was in love with her
life.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Sometimes, your scars have a lot less to do with where you have been and a lot more to do with where you are going.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Messages To You My Dear, Sometimes I am here and sometimes I am not, I like that about myself for I am folded. But please guide me in the right direction, for sometimes I, too, tend to lose myself in my imagination.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“To change the world we must heal our women, because it is the women who teach us how to love.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in all the things we used to love.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“If there is something you must know before I let you go; it is this: in your journey you will meet broken people, hateful people and people who have lost the sight for their glory. And the beauty of it all is this: I will tell you to love them, to love them deeply and show them how some of us still care. Never give up on them, for to give up on them is to destroy a reflection of ourselves.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“We think we owe everyone something. We think we need to explain ourselves and we think too much about thinking too much.
And it is funny how we think we know it all, but the reality is this: everything we think that brings us together is everything that sets us further apart. And over thinking of how different we all are; is failing to recognize of how connected we all could really be.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.

She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Sometimes love
is that fucked up movie
where everyone dies
in the end.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Lost World Maybe that is the problem with the world. We do not know what to feel and we do not know how to be ourselves.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Old photographs
We take pictures with people
so they could remember us
and leave memories behind
so they don’t forget us.
And the difference
between the two are the same.
We leave these moments
in the air,
hoping that somewhere
someone will find them
and make sense of everything
we chose to ignore.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“I can’t recognize myself
lately;
I’m someone I used to know.
I think you took me with you
and I was hoping you could
just leave me somewhere else,
because I’ve been waiting
for myself,
waiting for all the pieces
to come home.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Dreams
were always drawn
to call her name
and
reality just
could not
learn to let
her go.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“From chaos to lullabies
I watched her
live my thoughts,
and soon enough
she did become
my favorite stony.
She was everything
and with every word
she drew me closer.
She drew me into her story,
a story
I knew I would never
be able to understand.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“There is nothing out here...
it is all inside;
it is all in my head.
The things that happen do not exist
unless I give them meaning.
To be able to define everything
is where my greatest weakness lies.
To be able to feel
is the madness I need to make sense
of the things that strike me.
People strike me,
love strikes me
and everything else moves me
in such a way
that I could barely understand.
I feel,
and everything I feel is nothing;
nothing but an extension
of the mind
and
of the heart I was born with.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“She was the death of me,
the beginning and the end.
And I never understood her,
for how could someone
So beautiful be the cause
of so much destruction
after all.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Loving me will not be easy. It will be war. You will hold the gun and I will hand you the bullets. So breathe, and embrace the beauty of the massacre that lies ahead.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Then, she began to breathe, and live, and every moment took her to a place where goodbyes were hard to come by. She was in love, but not in love with someone or something; she was in love with her life. And for the first time, in a long time, everything was inspiring.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“Dedicated

to all who have a dream

to all who struggle
two jobs to get by

to all who have been
ignored all their lives

to all who feel empty

to all who cannot sleep
because there is so much
in their mind

to all who have died a little
in the name of love

to all who are called weird,
strange and odd

to all who create because
that is the only thing they know
how to do

to all who believe in something

to all who breathe and to all
who are no longer here

this one is for you.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Sometimes, we hate ourselves for the feelings we ignore.

Maybe that is the problem; we do not listen to ourselves until it is too late.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“Our fate lies
in the hands
of the things we love
and sometimes
the things we love
are the things
that lead us
to the fatal destruction
of ourselves.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“We take pictures with people
so they could remember us
and leave memories behind
so they don’t forget us.
And the difference
between the two are the same.

We leave these moments
in the air,
hoping that somewhere
someone will find them
and make sense of everything
we chose to ignore.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.”
― Robert Drake, Black ButterFly

“I couldn't find the words to save you,
to make you still.

And I buried myself
in the regret
until I became it.

If only I had known,
then perhaps,
you would have stayed.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

“And in the end, she left a scar and I knew that was how she wanted to be remembered. She wanted to leave her mark in the world without getting her heart too attached to it.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“And every time I look at you, I can feel something stirring inside of me. Like a collection of dying stars drowning beneath the waves. Waves that belong to your ocean and I have fallen deeply without really knowing how far it all could go.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly

“she was always willing to burn for everything she has ever loved.”
― Robert M. Drake, Black ButterFly