Kristina Mahr Biography & Quotes

“Is that what you want to hear? That I fought for something sinking. That I didn't leave it once it'd sunk. That I saw the shore & turned around & believed in you - even as I drowned.”

Heartbreak Fighting For Love

Author:Kristina Mahr

“I stay up late sometimes and play a game, the kind I should not play. I think of things you said and try to decipher truths from lies. Some nights I make them all lies and fall asleep hating you. Other times I make them all truths and fall asleep missing you. It's the kind of game I should not play because it's the kind of game I cannot win.”

Heartbreak Late Night Thoughts

Author:Kristina Mahr

“You slipped a grenade inside my mouth when you kissed me goodbye and walked away with the pin between your teeth. (There is nothing here to come back to.)”

Sad Heartbreak Alone Goodbye Abandoned Ruined Tortured

Author:Kristina Mahr

“It is as simple as this: all I want is you. And it is as impossible as this: all I want is you.”

Want Love Simple Forever Impossible You And Me

Author:Kristina Mahr

“I have gone and turned a graveyard into a garden. Something is growing from all that died inside of me.”

Death Growth Dying Garden Moving On Graveyard

Author:Kristina Mahr

“The sky is a riot of stars, and his smile is full of catastrophe. The night belongs to us. He belongs to me.”

Love Romance Night Stars Smile Belong

Book:All That We See or Seem

Source: All That We See or Seem

“I feel like all I ever do is hurt you," you said. "So stop," I said. And you looked so confused. Like you didn't realize you could.”

Pain Confused Subconscious Hurting Unintentional Stop S

Author:Kristina Mahr

“I like to think that Wendy went off and built herself a life, a good life. And that Peter missed her. (Just not enough.)”

Love Moving On Peter Pan Wendy Darling

Author:Kristina Mahr

“I am trying to make the best of it, but if you want to know the truth — it breaks my heart still, every day, to live in a world where there's no you.”

Poetry Loss Grief Grief And Loss Sad Quotes

Author:Kristina Mahr

“Your love has only ever come with thorns, and I have only ever spent so much time with my nose buried in its petals that I didn't notice my hand dripping blood from holding on so tightly. Your love has only ever been on borrowed time. You blamed me for not putting it in water. I blamed you for giving me something already dying.”

Love Thorns Failed Love

Author:Kristina Mahr

“I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without wondering how many times / the Scarecrow had his heart broken / no brain to tell him no / all that courage telling him yes / I wonder if he was desperate from all that hurt / if he'd spend some nights asking the Tin Man if he was a fool / Tin Man saying yes / saying obviously / saying of course / because how could he know / how could he see / with that hole in his chest / where a heart should be. I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without walking memory lane like a yellow brick road/ at the end of which / is someone who still loves me.”

Broken Heart Scarecrow Tin Man The Wizard Of Oz Someone W

Book:Heretic Hearts

Source: Heretic Hearts

“Sometimes love is not what wakes you up. Sometimes it's just there waiting for when you do.”

Love Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Kristina Mahr

“Out of sight, out of mind, I'm told, I'm assured, so I hide away your hands. I stow away your smile, and I put away our plans. I bury all your boyish charms, and I lock away your laugh. I stash all your special names for me, and I tuck away the last year and a half. The trouble is, I never know where I stored this or that. I open a drawer, and there's your voice, it's here and gone so fast. Out of sight, out of mind, out of mind, out of mind, I'm out of my out of my mind. Living in a graveyard filled with all you left behind.”

Love Out Of Sight Out Of Mind

Book:The Wound Before the Scar

Source: The Wound Before the Scar

“I mind less that you broke the thing we were and more that you broke the thing we could have been.”

Lost Hurt Broken Heartbreak Broke Could Have Been

Author:Kristina Mahr

“Van Gogh's last words were, "The sadness will last forever." He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless painted the stars within it. And me, who knows it too. And me, who has nonetheless punched my fair share of holes within it and shone a flashlight through them and called them stars. The sadness will not last forever. I know because every day I bloody my knuckles in the pursuit of something I might see by.”

Light Stars Dark Forever Sadness Last Words Going On

Author:Kristina Mahr

“Van Gogh's last words were, "This sadness will last forever." He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless painted the stars within it. And me, who knows it too. And me, who has nonetheless punched my fair share of holes within it and shone a flashlight through them and called them stars. The sadness will not last forever. I know because every day I bloody my knuckles in the pursuit of something I might see by.”

Light Stars Dark Forever Sadness Last Words Going On

Author:Kristina Mahr

Kristina Mahr Biography

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