lmcteo

hobby writer.
posting random thoughts for my poems and short stories

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"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

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It is a rare and heavy thing to realize that for once in your life, you were perfectly content with nothing more than a glimpse of someone else’s joy.

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Like what we have, I believe that some stories aren't meant to be finished in this lifetime.

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I don't know which one I want more. The smile you left behind or my breath that you've taken away.

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“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
-Paulo Coelho

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I've learned there are some things that are impossible to reject. Like loneliness... like memories... and like me liking you....

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I always think about you. Even when I am not thinking.

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7/7: quiet pain it takes to get there.

​And you carry that ache gladly. Perfectly content to let the warmth of the fire be yours alone, while she walks on without ever knowing who held the match.

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1/7: There is a quiet, heavy sort of comfort in knowing your place in someone else’s sky. You learn to accept that you are not the sun. You can’t chase away her winter, and God knows you can’t fix the things that break inside her when the world gets too loud.

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6/7: her sadness. But making her laugh in the absolute middle of a storm? Giving her a single breath of air when everything else is suffocating?

​It will always be enough. It has to be. Because seeing her light up, even for a split second, is worth every single bit of the

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You were the catalyst for a version of me I wasn't prepared to meet. There was a light in you that felt like an apology for everything else that had gone wrong, even if that light is now fading from view.

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I do not crave your compassion, nor do I ask that you bleed as I once did. In the end, my only request is a modest one: that you grant me the map of your indifference... so I might finally understand the terrain of your silence.

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"Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward."
- Eric Roth

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To bury a person is ritual. To bury an illusion is a quiet, lonely execution.

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To love without need is the hardest gravity to defy. It is the art of wishing someone the sun while you are standing in the rain.

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The silence between us—unsaid words and the shared glances—is all I ever need. I cherish every part of you, even the defenses you’ve built—as they are what makes you unique. Loving you is a beautiful paradox of joy and ache, but it's a journey I'd choose every single time.

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At the tail end of limerence, the heart breaks twice. Once when the dream ends, and again when we realize it never began.