“let the stars inside you breathe,before the darkness swallows them whole.let them burn through your skinand light this whole goddamn world on fire.”
— Ava
“show me all the parts of you that you do not love so i know where to begin.”
— Ava
“things keep falling in and out of place. this is the universe’s way of taking care of me.”
— Ava
“there’s always been a little sadnessinside my happiness.i’ve never been able to separate the two.”
— Ava
“my feelings tend to last longerthan my lovers doand it’s made a monsterout of my heart.”
— Ava
“the woman is rain,and when she falls,she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.”
— Ava
“you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.”
— Ava
“i am a woman and i am alone,and i cannot tell which one of the twoi love being more.”
— Ava
“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
“woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.”
— Ava
“i would’ve done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.”
— Ava
“you’d take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.”
— Ava
“i do not know how to live tepidly.i was never built to fit in.i live by my souland my soul is insane.”
— Ava
“oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.”
— Ava
“through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.”
— Ava
“it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now–knowing everything between uswill come to an end.”
— Ava
“i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.”
— Ava
“i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.”
— Ava
“everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here–alone, waiting for the things that stay.”
— Ava
“there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.”
— Ava
“i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.”
— Ava
“they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don’t know if that is always true, i’ve been wanting to hear your heart and it’s as silent as the moon.”
— Ava
“i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.”
— Ava
“stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.”
— Ava
“i sometimes think i’m too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?”
— Ava
“keep following your heart.it won’t always be easy, but it’ll be the most important thing you’ll do.”
— Ava
“you need to be careful with me.i fall in loveand i fall in love forever.”
— Ava
“let me tell you i’m in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this– about what you mean to me.let me take it there without ruining everything.”
— Ava
“stay too closeand she will leave.stay too farand she will leave.distance is too delicate a thing.”
— Ava
“you came in slowly like the fog and consumed me.”
— Ava