Nicole

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

“The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.”

“In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”

“I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don’t want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.”

“I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road.”

“Hell is not a place, it’s a state of mind and body. It’s an obsession with a voice, a face, a name.”

Maybe I was using him to unhook me from myself. Letting him untether me a little. Letting him wind me out.

Sometimes I felt the same, that electricity, that blankness like a flash that whites everything out.

“I love you because you taste like mornings when all I’ve been having are nights.”

“When it comes to sweet souls, it takes one to know one.”

“I’m lost somewhere between hell and home.”

“I love when my hands get filthy from your stardust.”

“We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”

“Y, a usted que le gusta tanto el infierno, venga y quemase en las llamas de mi cuerpo.”

““Wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours because they’re too busy smiling to kiss you properly. Yeah. Wait for that.””

“I wonder who’s arms would I run and fall into if I were drunk in a room with everyone I have ever loved”

“Some nights I wake up with a black hole in my chest- it echoes like a beat-boxing hurricane and burns like a grandmother’s memory. ”