Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps QUOTES

1 " Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

2 " So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,
I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,
And when I fall asleep beside you
I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,
because I don’t know if I will.
I don’t know if I will.

- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

3 " There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

4 " But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every second
every kiss & every night
Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people
watching
and I just want to be somewhere silent
somewhere still
But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely
and I don’t understand
Because I was alone my whole life
My whole life
I was so damn lonely and I was content with that
because I liked myself and my own company
and I didn’t need anyone
I thought
But then there was you .. ...

So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,
the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,
Because I lost myself to someone I love
and I might get myself back one day
but it will take time, it will take time.

This is gonna take some time.

I wish someone would have told me this.
Someone should have told me this. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

5 " I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

6 " You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

7 " I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

8 " You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

9 " I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

10 " I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it?
I quit, I'm done?
Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment
of what's out there. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

11 " There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”.
It was a beautiful night. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

12 " I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

13 " It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down.
I promise I can fly before I hit the ground.
It doesn't even hurt anymore.
I swear, it doesn't hurt. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

14 " I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn’t get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

15 " And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

16 " I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

17 " I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

18 " My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to? "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

19 " All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

20 " I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. "

― Charlotte Eriksson , Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps