AVA. Quotes & Sayings

my strength should not threaten you.
my strength is not a threat to your strength.
you are strong.
you are beautiful.
you are lush.
you are powerful.
as you are.
as i am.

imagine the force we would be together
if we lifted each other up.
imagine the force we would be together
if we didn't tear each other down. — 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.

every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay. — AVA.

hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole. — AVA.

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

stay too close
and she will leave.
stay too far
and she will leave.

distance is too delicate a thing. — AVA.

some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling. — AVA.

i over love.
i under love.

i am either a flood
or i am nothing. — AVA.

i wanted to destroy you.

you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me. — AVA.

you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be. — 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.

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love. — AVA.

woman--
another word for beginning.
another word for revolution.
another word for healing.
another word for being.
another word for me. — AVA.

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything. — AVA.

let your love cover me like skin.
i want the whole world to see. — AVA.

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything. — AVA.

love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time. — AVA.

i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart. — AVA.

i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.

you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break. — AVA.

you're going to love your way out of this.
out of the hurt.
out of the pain.

you're going to love your way out of it
and be free. — AVA.

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more. — AVA.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love. — AVA.

i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.

but if we all do that--
we can make a big difference. — 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.

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurting,
the healing,
the putting back together
is always too long. — AVA.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human. — AVA.

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look. — AVA.

you need to be careful with me.

i fall in love
and i fall in love forever. — 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.

i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before. — AVA.

i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites you.
i'm so caught up in
how you see the world,
how you see everything
and still offer up your love
for all to take it.

you give me a glimpse of your heart
and i can't tell you
how much you turn me on. — AVA.

i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun. — AVA.

it is hard not to count the hours
i have left with you.

it is hard to be here now--
knowing everything between us
will come to an end. — 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.

keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do. — AVA.

my feelings tend to last longer
than my lovers do
and it's made a monster
out of my heart. — AVA.

i am not a jealous person,
but when i am with you,
the thought of someone else
pulling your attention away from me
kills me a little inside
each time. — AVA.

i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy with love.

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full. — AVA.

i took a night drive.
i needed to get away.
i needed to know
it's okay to go
and have no destination,
where time moves slow
or doesn't exist.
that life can be like this,
aimless wandering,
just breathing,
living,
driving forever underneath the stars. — AVA.

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin. — AVA.

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away. — AVA.

and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone. — AVA.

i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore. — AVA.

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips. — AVA.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two. — AVA.

remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love. — AVA.

the woman is rain,
and when she falls,
she is a monsoon.
to love her is to drown. — AVA.

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace? — AVA.

i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot. — AVA.

let the stars inside you breathe,
before the darkness swallows them whole.

let them burn through your skin and light this
whole goddamn world on fire. — AVA.

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are. — AVA.

you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.

you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.

there are no lines
that can hold you.

there are not enough words
for all the more that you are. — AVA.

do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love. — AVA.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that. — AVA.

we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going. — AVA.

you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you. — 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 open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day. — AVA.

there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.

you have the power to choose. — AVA.

i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone. — 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.