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dead, but dreaming

A.P. Sweet

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I cry often. I cry and cleanse my face with my tears and swim to the center of it all. A center that I have written about a thousand times, forever etched into the porcelain.”

“The moon makes love to the ocean and in this holy conception it gives birth to a little tide.”

“Out here, the open night is my church, the trees are my congregation, the stars are my angels and the moon is the only god that I know.”

“I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back.”

“Her eyes burn like a match head striking my flesh with ferocity and precision to ignite the night with a divinorum induced dream.”

“We make our own music. We paint our own future.”

“I wrote because of their inability to nurture me. I wrote to conceal the truth that life was filled with pain and that true beauty could only come from that pain. I wrote to simply disguise that pain.”

“I would give my lungs to the fish so that they may rise out of the water and feel the wind.”

“For this nirvana, I willingly give in to the numbness of my wrist.”

“I spread my fingers outward, letting the knife tip of my middle finger rip the sky as it tares a rift in the moon.”

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