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Confessions of Her by Cindy Cherie
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
"I tilted my chin towards the sky while the weight of the world pressed down heavily on my spine. The sun kissed my cheeks. I let out a heavy sigh, closed my eyes and made a wish, imagining I was anywhere but here, nestled into the shoulder of the love of my life, drifting somewhere over the Pacific. I wonder what it feels like to not have to fight for every little thing in your life. When every day is a battle you’re only just barely winning, running away feels like a perfectly reasonable option. What would it feel like to disappear, clutching nothing but a passport and suitcase? Today is one of those days"
"Sometimes I wonder if he knows how it feels. To wake each morning dressed in battle armor, to climb mountains with a stomach cradling the bottom ofthe Indian Ocean. There are days when the incline is so steep I wish for a shoulder to lean on. I’ve never known such a luxury. Though support is a necessity, not a luxury. Be strong, I tell myself. The warrior does not feel weakness. For if I do, the never-ending battle that is life might overpower me. I’ve taught myself to abandon weak thoughts as quickly as they arrive,replacing them with battle cries instead".
"I know running away would only be a temporary distraction. But maybe that’s why I long for it. I was born with war in my bones and I’ll die with a sword in my hand. The warrior in me has no desire to give up, but the little girl in me is tired. She yearns for a pause button, to succumb to this innate desire, begging: stop the ride and get off, disappear, run away, purge the responsibilities of life."
"he is libraries unwritten,
and I …
I am stories untold,
and all I’ve ever wanted is to lie in the arms of love and write words the world has yet to find."
"What is love?
Love is looking someone’s agony in the eye,
reaching out a wanting hand
and saying,
“Give it to me. I’ll take it.”
"Have you ever heard the sound of heartbreak
The silence is deafening.
Inaudible agony tearing apart the seams that once held you so perfectly together.
I’ve never heard silence this loud."
"It was a slow and painful death,
my love for him.
Killing it almost killed me.
I feel it breathe within me at times,
fighting for life,
right before I push it back down
and suffocate it."
"Today I do not wish to be seen
but to dissolve into the sea and feel small—
candidly and unapologetically small."
"I will die
without finding
a single soul
who knows
what to do
with all this fire
behind my eyes."
"There will be men
who swim in your skin
and others
who drown themselves
in everything
that lies beneath.
This is how you know."
"I collect my mistakes
like seeds of knowledge,
plant them within the
walls of my heart,
and watch myself grow".
"One day I met a man who looked at me with waves in his eyes, and for the first time I felt truly seen.
“You were always going to be too much for them, Dolly. They were looking for a drop. Can’t you hear it?” he said, pressing his ear to my chest as if I were a seashell. “You’re the whole damn ocean.”
"The sea has built a home in me.
I do not know where it ends
and I begin,
only that it consumes me."
“I grew tired of waiting on the universe to deliver up the love of my life,” I replied, “so I fell in love with myself. Turns out it was there all along.”
"Sometimes I wonder if he knows how it feels. To wake each morning dressed in battle armor, to climb mountains with a stomach cradling the bottom ofthe Indian Ocean. There are days when the incline is so steep I wish for a shoulder to lean on. I’ve never known such a luxury. Though support is a necessity, not a luxury. Be strong, I tell myself. The warrior does not feel weakness. For if I do, the never-ending battle that is life might overpower me. I’ve taught myself to abandon weak thoughts as quickly as they arrive,replacing them with battle cries instead".
"I know running away would only be a temporary distraction. But maybe that’s why I long for it. I was born with war in my bones and I’ll die with a sword in my hand. The warrior in me has no desire to give up, but the little girl in me is tired. She yearns for a pause button, to succumb to this innate desire, begging: stop the ride and get off, disappear, run away, purge the responsibilities of life."
"he is libraries unwritten,
and I …
I am stories untold,
and all I’ve ever wanted is to lie in the arms of love and write words the world has yet to find."
"What is love?
Love is looking someone’s agony in the eye,
reaching out a wanting hand
and saying,
“Give it to me. I’ll take it.”
"Have you ever heard the sound of heartbreak
The silence is deafening.
Inaudible agony tearing apart the seams that once held you so perfectly together.
I’ve never heard silence this loud."
"It was a slow and painful death,
my love for him.
Killing it almost killed me.
I feel it breathe within me at times,
fighting for life,
right before I push it back down
and suffocate it."
"Today I do not wish to be seen
but to dissolve into the sea and feel small—
candidly and unapologetically small."
"I will die
without finding
a single soul
who knows
what to do
with all this fire
behind my eyes."
"There will be men
who swim in your skin
and others
who drown themselves
in everything
that lies beneath.
This is how you know."
"I collect my mistakes
like seeds of knowledge,
plant them within the
walls of my heart,
and watch myself grow".
"One day I met a man who looked at me with waves in his eyes, and for the first time I felt truly seen.
“You were always going to be too much for them, Dolly. They were looking for a drop. Can’t you hear it?” he said, pressing his ear to my chest as if I were a seashell. “You’re the whole damn ocean.”
"The sea has built a home in me.
I do not know where it ends
and I begin,
only that it consumes me."
“I grew tired of waiting on the universe to deliver up the love of my life,” I replied, “so I fell in love with myself. Turns out it was there all along.”