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21 " By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like. "
― Liz Newman
22 " I look forward to the day that I can feel nothing but indifference for you. Just like you were able to do from the moment that you walked away. "
23 " Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways you express yourself in silence, and can interpret the quiet as though you’re screaming to be heard. "
24 " Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe that you’re trying and that they’re trying. See the good in others, so it brings out the best in you. "
25 " It’s like a broken bone that never healed quite right. An ache that I feel on cold days when the chill of your memory dances up and down my spine, taunting me with the way it can still induce pain, even after all this time. "
26 " Sometimes,People just aren’t going to get itIt’s an ever-elusive concept, to be understoodAll you can hope forIs that you find someone that tries.Find someone that tries. "
― Liz Newman , Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding
27 " I have found that happiness is a defiant act of bravery in spite of a callous world. "
28 " AtlantisPeople would whisper about usAnd our fall from graceAs our world fell to ruinAnd our worst fears were realized,We’d be submerged and forgottenThe stuff of speculation.Legend at best,We were a lost city,Singing our siren balladsOf heartbreak and woeFrom the depths below,We were here!We were here.We were here… "
29 " You’ve been looking for someone else while losing yourself along the way. "
30 " I find solacein a serenadethe words of a strangerbringing comfortthrough the lines of a song,The pain intertwinedin the verses and half notesMy heart knows the wordsand I sing alongas my soul finds healingthrough a balladswirling through my stereo "
― Liz Newman , Hope Between Heartbeats
31 " I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are. "
32 " Her eyes look tired, but it’s her soul that’s truly weary. "
33 " I was missing you, but not for the person you were. I was missing you for the version of you I made up in my mind. I was missing the possibilities of what could have been. I was missing the potential I thought I saw in you. I was missing you for the glimpses I thought I saw of our future and for that hopes I had that I could be a girl worth changing for. "
34 " Of Ruin and RenewalWe are soulsOf ruin and renewalSorting through the rubbleOf our painful past.We are soulsOf ruin and renewalWaiting for the dustTo settle at lastWe are soulsOf ruin and renewalSearching for eyes that see usAnd walk through the debrisWe are soulsOf ruin and renewal,We rebuild, we revive,We repurpose our own story. "
35 " We left this love in ruins, wreckage and debris. A ghost of our former glory, artifacts of what used to be. "
36 " The MaskWe often pair the turmoil in our mindWith a calm exterior,Hoping that the maskWill serve as a floodgateTo hold back the chaosOf our swirling thoughts "
37 " Your heart has always been willing to bleed, to ache, to humble itself for love. And, when you’ve had enough, your heart will be the last to let go. "
38 " Somehow, when you look at me, you still see the good despite all of the ugly sides of me that often consume the reflection I see. "
39 " I fell in love with your strength and your heart. I fell in love with your quirks and your stories. I fell in love with every part of you, the good and the bad. Mostly, I fell in love with creating a life with you. "
40 " I had completely lost myself in pursuit of you, and I couldn’t recognize who I had become. It took looking in the mirror that day to realize that it was time for a change. I had traded in my relationship with myself in hopes of having a relationship with you, and it was time for me to make it up to that girl in the mirror. "