“ For as long as I shall live, I look forward to never growing old with you. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I forgot my key. The question is: who do I call now? Landlords and locksmiths have become more loyal than you when you're the only other person that I gave a copy to in these places that I can only seem to rent. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ We don't have a choice of whom we fall in love with. We don't have a choice of whom we fall out of love with. We only have a choice to stay or leave— it's a set menu at a fixed price. But, what if we don't like either of our options? ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ It takes a lot for me to close a door, but when I do, I slam it. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I stopped telling you all of my secrets when you became my biggest one. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Today I hate myself for loving you, and I hate myself for not being strong enough to love you back... when I know broken boys like you need me, too. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ It's been nice having your van in my driveway. Maybe for just two weeks before you go, I can have the vision come untrue, long enough to forget when I thought I was going to have your van in my driveway every morning, and your sleepy noises the first thing that I heard in a day, as you whispered how you couldn't stay, but "wished you could," in independence's place. I told you, "I never revise a poem. Make sure, in your moment of selfdefeat, that you are sure, because once I hit 'save', your decision will never delete. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Tornadoes devastate and leave a mess behind, just like your ending, so the instant that 'Psychlone' sees you rebuilding, she's going to spin completely out of control, every time. You can't get sucked into the same vortex twice if you eject the monster from being it's own victim; but until then, I'd pull in your rocking chairs, lock down your trash cans and recycling bins, and take your potted azaleas inside... ... if I were you. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I save a piece of paper that has the indentation of your name on it— your signature... ...move. I knew that I shouldn't have let you push down so hard. Your memory left a mark on so many pages after, if you couldn't tell, as I publish again to press on.... ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ In the few minutes that he sleeps, I am with myself again— that part of me that makes me... ...me, which is sometimes you. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I've lost touch with myself. It seems like she and I have not touched base for ages, I can't remember the last time I talked to her, honest to God. She's always been my best friend—my vicarious better half. It's such a shame, really... I wish I knew what she was up to these days. I really, REALLY do. It's not as though you can close a bond like ours when the room gets too messy; you can't just shut the door. It's common knowledge they'll only open a window ...and sneak out. I don't know where she is now. She could be on a train to the other coast, for all I know. I quit listening to her wishes a long time ago. Shame on me. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Don't keep coloring in their lines waiting for them to sign on the dotted... for you will become... ...overdrawn. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Every time you lie to me, I still know your truth. Every time you tell me you're not allowed to love me anymore, I can still hear the gospel behind your tongue. And, that is not my silent desperation; that is your desperate silence. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I have to know if you'll read this the same way that I wrote it, because if you can't, then you're nothing more than a rough draft that I don't care to edit. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ The spiking temps spiked a fever for cool commons, so I made a plate of tapenade, bruschetta, and prosciutto, with orange creamsicle martinis flowing like a Zen fountain. It was hard for me to believe that I woke up that morning fighting back tears for no reason and all kinds of reasons. It is still... hard for me to believe that you have become no reason, at all. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Books are like lovers; you always love the latest, more than the previous, but you always fear the latest is going to release too soon. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Sometimes the loneliest place you will ever be is in bed beside someone you cannot reach. There is no love in our love anymore. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ He didn't see women as people; he saw them as trophies, and that is precisely why he never won me. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ People promise each other the world until they are not given it. We give until we no longer receive something of equal or greater value. Life and love is nothing more than regifting. When we don't like what we get, we save it for someone else, and hope, with all of our hearts, the the next package is better. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ I remember when all of my dreams were in rainbow. Now, everything I do I have to Technicolor because it's all become so black and white... so subtle hues, no longer Prismacolor me and you. I sharpen those pencils, but they still come up dull. I shade and shade and shade, but it all comes up a shady review. I miss the rainbow when my dreams were caught all throughout the day; and not just late at night, when I couldn't sleep because everything was dark, and too steep to climb, and only in rhyme because I have not become THAT gray poet. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ We all know that nothing can grow if we don't water it. So, sometimes together, we are going to have to drink up. Throw away all abandon and run through the sprinklers. and purposely forget our umbrella in the car. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Every ending is always a beginning. Without endings, there would be no beginnings. I don't know about you, but you can't begin to live without knowing how to end... well. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ Your layered, sweatery, thickset hug around me—I dared to dream of your bare, balmy, brokendown skin tangled in mine. It was a twist of artless fate in my mind. I watched you pull away... on your "Naked" bike. I was covered in a trench coat, but more than naked enough for the both of us.... ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ When you fall in love for the last time, it becomes the first. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ This is where I long to get home to after vacation. This is where I feel comfy in my pajamas. This is where, no matter where I go, my bed is here and none is better than my own. When I think about you, you can never be him... When once upon a time ago, I never thought there WAS a him that could ever be you. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
- 2K
“ If you're going to force me out, someone else will find their way in. That is key. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
- 3K
“ I need more protein in my poetry. I don't care if you cannot chew the fat of my words, my stomach is growling and it is because... I am starving. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
- 574
“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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“ His mind had patterns, patterns that made puzzles, and puzzles that became mazes. Those mazes had color and became labyrinths— labyrinths that went crazy like jungles— and all he could trust me with was letting my fingers get lost in his curls. I played in there, for years trapped in his hair (that overthought and provoked lair)— the only thing between my thoughts and his: the air. But, he was smart not to trust me enough. He knew. The open air looked at him with slight eyes, issued him binds of lies, like library cards ...full of fiction. And I knew this, so how could I forget? Along the way, I turned into every other female he ever loved. It was his destiny that gave me permission to pull his hair again. ”
- Heather Angelika Dooley- Copy
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