Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass Quotes

“I measure time by the days I've spent away from you/ that thought occurred to me/ as i watched the sky go dark from blue”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“in my veins that roll you run citrus watercolor images of serpents on orange trees quietly arise and grow sweet in my midst”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“LA who am I to need you
when I've needed so much, asked for so much?
And what I've been given, I don't know yet”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Be the art that life is breathing.
Be the soul the world is living.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“i like u so much/ but it makes me nervous when u don't call/ under my breath i say/ Don't make me be resilient/ i want to be soft/ if u let me be myself/ u will be the first one who ever did.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“You're only as happy as your least happy child.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Like a view of the sea on a summer day on the most perfect winding road taken in from your car seat window A thing perfect and ready to become a part of the texture of the fabric of Something more ethereal like Mount Olympus where Zeus and Athena and the rest of the immortals play”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I stepped on a bird/ cried in my new boyfriend's arms/ to live is to kill”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“there's things you still don't know about me
like sometimes i'm afraid my sadness is too big
and that one day you might have to help me handle it”
― Lana Del Rey, Violent Bent Backwards Over The Grass

“You don't want to be forgotten
You just want to disappear”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“For years I begged you/ to just take me in your arms/ you wouldn't. Couldn't.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I love you, but you don’t understand me, I’m a real poet!
My life is my poetry, my lovemaking is my legacy!”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Stay on your path Sylvia Plath
don't fall away like all the
others”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Am i being brazen for saying this year makes me feel/ like we could've written it better/ than him?”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Because captains aren't like
poets
they don't make metaphors
between the sea and the sky.
And as I thought that to myself
I realized -
that's why I write.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“But alas this is a real life - and it’s been a real fight just to keep my mind from committing treason.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“But there’s always been just a little tiny piece of me inside the size of a small slice of angel cake that knew somewhere somehow That I deserved better than someone like you.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn’t love me lives there”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I believe in the goodness in me that it's firm enough to plant a flag in, or a rosebud, or to build a new life.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Don't make me be resilient / i so want to be soft / if u let me be myself / u will be the first one who did”
― Lana del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“i think about the last time my friends were driving with me
how the radio was so loud we couldn't hear the words
so we became the music
happy”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“it's time like this as the marine layer lifts
off the sea off the dock where we're standing with the candle lit
that i think to myself
there's things you still don't know about me
like sometimes I'm afraid my sadness is too big
and that one day you might have to help me handle it”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Thank you for being here for bearing witness to my vastness Through the years I’ve called you in and out of my orbit You, in your madness”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“But lately I’ve been thinking that I wish someone had told me when I was younger more about the inhabitants that thrive off of paradise. That should they take too much there will be nothing left to give.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“In me the earth moves around the sun no land all sea”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“close your eyes and feel where you hold your attention if it’s in the back of your eyes walk it down to your heart center and make that the new place from which your thoughts enter”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“that i pray that i may always keep my eyes level to your eye line never downcast at the table cloth too nervous to share my innermost thoughts with you”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I was once in love with my life here”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass