While We're Here Quotes

“do not mourn those not dead; feel their absence, but do not walk with ghosts. do not drown in that warm liqueur of memories, as tempting as it is.”
― Leeza Jayde, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“you shouldn’t be your own enemy. you are the one person who will always stay. until the very end.”
― Leeza Jayde, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“i fall like a star but i rise again like the sun”
― Leeza Jayde, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“you’re my 1am thoughts. the spaces between my fingers. the laughter that lives on the tip of my tongue now. eyepiece. umbrella. shield. sugar in my tea. i’m a wanderer and you’re woodlands. a summer thunderstorm quenching the drought in this arid, dusty sea of red earth. because that’s the thing. without meaning to, you’ve become my favourite things about breathing when my lungs feel like giving out. — without meaning to”
― Leeza Jayde von Alpen, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“your super power is that you still get up. still show up. still try. still have hope. you chose these decisions. even when your mind was messy. even when it tested you. even when you thought you had nothing left in the tank. and i think that makes you very, very courageous indeed.”
― Leeza Jayde von Alpen, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“we need to learn to give love as others need it not how we want to receive it.”
― Leeza Jayde von Alpen, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“it’s alright if it hurts to let things go. this means it was real and that you have a heart that works.”
― Leeza Jayde von Alpen, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose

“once butterflies wiggle free from their chrysalis they never look back.”
― Leeza Jayde von Alpen, While We're Here: Poetry and Prose