you are safe here. Quotes

“the woman is rain,
and when she falls,
she is a monsoon.
to love her is to drown.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurting,
the healing,
the putting back together
is always too long.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i took a night drive.
i needed to get away.
i needed to know
it's okay to go
and have no destination,
where time moves slow
or doesn't exist.
that life can be like this,
aimless wandering,
just breathing,
living,
driving forever underneath the stars.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i over love.
i under love.

i am either a flood
or i am nothing.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“woman--
another word for beginning.
another word for revolution.
another word for healing.
another word for being.
another word for me.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.

you have the power to choose.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“let the stars inside you breathe,
before the darkness swallows them whole.

let them burn through your skin and light this
whole goddamn world on fire.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“my strength should not threaten you.
my strength is not a threat to your strength.
you are strong.
you are beautiful.
you are lush.
you are powerful.
as you are.
as i am.

imagine the force we would be together
if we lifted each other up.
imagine the force we would be together
if we didn't tear each other down.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.

you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.

there are no lines
that can hold you.

there are not enough words
for all the more that you are.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“you're going to love your way out of this.
out of the hurt.
out of the pain.

you're going to love your way out of it
and be free.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace?”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i can’t hold onto love. i’m not gentle enough. i always end up crushing the thing in between my fingertips.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“i am a body that carries sadness as if it is the only thing that belongs there. i forget that love and warmth and peace belongs there too.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“love is my thighs,
this belly,
my eyes.

love is my speech,
the search,
my cry.

love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time.”
― AVA., you are safe here.