I Would Leave Me If I Could Quotes

“I hope you’ll stay. I hope you’ll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn’t measure up, and I never would.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“How strange to write about "having" when for so long I've drawn inspiration only from longing?”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror
And not hate the person staring back at me”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“Stuck in the middle of "I love you" and "I can't take this anymore.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I don't say it often, but I'm proud of the woman that I turned out to be”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I keep a pistol when I sleep -inside my mouth so I don't fight my tongue -for saying all these things, like how I saw you in my dreams.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“They cry, “But I WANT to be a writer!” And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It’s simple. Write.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“But mostly poetic
I'm whatever I've seen on a movie screen”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I love the coffee for staining your teeth,
and warming your palms in the morning.
I would protect you till the end of time.
I would lie down,
in the middle of tornado,
and cover you.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I won't let anyone down,
If I crawl tonight
But I still let everyone down,
When I change in size
And I went tumbling down,
Trying to reach your height
But I scream too loud,
If I speak my mind.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“A beautiful woman is a car crash. Shiny asphalt and smoking rubber. Melted plastic and metal edges. Glimmering glass shrapnel iridescence scattered across the road. Haphazard beauty. Dignified and slightly terrifying.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I wonder
what I'll ever have control of.
Rejection breeds
obsession,
so they say.
I left my heart
and all my hope,
my vindicated tales of woe
in Sweden
on a freezing winter day.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“To drop seeds into my belly. To spit a virus in my throat that grew into a giant “you” plant. The branches crawling up the walls of my insides and begging to claw my mouth open and make me say things I don’t mean. The dying leaves flaking off and swaying to the pit of my stomach in an imaginary breeze landing with a deafening thump. Echoes that bounce up between my teeth. And remind my tongue there is no more watermelon. Just empty space.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“can’t carry all this weight, so I must put it somewhere and somewhere is with you. You will take good care of it?”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“A beautiful woman is a car crash”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“SUMMER FRUIT I spent springs and summers as a child eating the fruit from a watermelon. Grainy sugar bites and juice slick up my cheeks like a Chelsea smile. My mother used to warn me if I swallowed a seed it would get stuck in my belly and grow a watermelon plant. My stomach would expand till I’d combust. I always spit them out in horror. I spent a spring and summer eating the fruit from the flesh of your lips. The bounty of two round mounds, hard like pink sugar. Your grip on my cheeks with a firm hand holding my mouth open.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“You've been singing on your own
all along
Writing records in your room since 15
Drama queen
Well you're older now it seems”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“See, I've started taking down
All of my favorite
little sounds.
That waltz around you
in 3 quarter notes
With each word you pronounce”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“When all your lovers
start to die.
You wake alone
and wonder why
they left you here
to document the wreckage.
They tell me that it's art I make,
in all this chaos I create.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too
young; too early.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“But I will
never
believe
That I belong to the side
with the guillotine.
(You should eat the rich
Even if that includes me.)”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“cause I won't love a man
Unless he is angry
Because of my father”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry