Dominic Riccitello Quotes

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.
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And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work.
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I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever?
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And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.
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He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.
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I love you, but I’m more in love with myself and that’s the problem.
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Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?
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I like the chase, scavenging and how we unravel. Standing naked with all my pores at the door. Waiting for a response, a love, someone to call my home. Where my emotions graze the air and I’m lying half past gone.
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I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.
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He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in this very second. I appreciate, cherish, and thank him for it; and I will for this life and into any life that may come.
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I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.
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I touched him. From brain to body, in ways I couldn’t quite understand. But he did and for him, that was all that mattered.
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I worked with him in a way where there was no need to align. We felt and the feeling was simple but complex. It was the intensity in our grasp and when it was done, it was done.
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People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.
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I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.
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You want to know what I loved about him? Everything. From a freckle on his ass down to his undying selfish need to always be right.
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I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.
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It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him.
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It wasn’t worth it, but at the time it was. And that’s all that mattered.
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I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.
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Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too.
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He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.
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It was love. It was lust. It was just between us. The passion, the desire, the fire. The way we held on in so little time and his eyes when he saw me for the first time.
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Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters?
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Someone's therapist knows all about you.
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When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?
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I love you, but there will be a dozen more too.
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Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less.
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Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?
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But could words bethe end of me?
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Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.
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As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction.
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I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.
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I’ve spent awhile trying to figure out where I’m going and the only thing I’ve come to realize is it doesn’t matter where, it’s how I get there.
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You can’t just be. You have to become.
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I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending.
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I fear falling in love and understanding why.
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Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be.
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We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally.
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They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life.
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You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.
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I see you in every passing moment.
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I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it.
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We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.
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We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.
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Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.
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People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments.
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It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.
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It didn’t affect him because he couldn’t fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and different places, which were divided by a constellation.
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All of my bad ideas were always my best.
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You don’t get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it’s yours and no longer theirs.
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Loving you was hard, wanting you was harder, but kissing your forehead was insanity.
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I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.
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I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.
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I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it.
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Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on.
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Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve.
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I never expected to fall in love. I never expected to float or fall a thousand feet and create the crevice I called my life. But the thing with crevices, there’s always a top and always a bottom. And the feeling of appreciation when you look from the top and understand how fast it can all come crashing down — it’s more than beautiful and more than words could ever explain.
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I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future.
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How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?
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