Fractured | Tobias Eaton ✓

Epigraph

She was the prettiest
"What if?"
⎯ D.J.

Breaking off pieces of yourself
to fit into places will not help you
belong, it will only make you bleed.
⎯ Nikita Gill

I'm learning that I don't always have
to make noise to be seen, that
even my silence has a spine, a rumble
and says, I'm here in its native tongue
⎯ Rudy Francisco

Our backs tell stories no books
have the spine to carry
⎯ Rupi Kaur

Of all the things I could've been,
I am so glad to be this
Thank God I didn't actually become
who I pretended to be back when
I had no idea how I was
⎯ Rudy Francisco

And in the end,
we were all just humans,
drunk on the idea that love,
only love, could heal our brokenness.
⎯ Christopher Poindexter

I know I should crumble for better reasons
but have you seen that boy? He brings the
sun to its knees every night
⎯ Rupi Kaur

Never ever mistake her silence for weakness.
Remember that sometimes the air stills,
before the onset of a hurricane...
⎯ Nikita Gill

I'll throw my voice into the stars
and maybe the echo of my words
will be written for you in the clouds
by sunrise. All I am trying to say is,
I will love you through the darkness.
⎯ Christopher Poindexter

"Let's just go. Drive until our troubles
phantom in the rearview mirror and we
forget they exist, at least for a moment."
⎯ Rudy Francisco

I feel the most beautiful
when I'm with you
⎯ N.

She buried her ears into the calm
of his heartbeat, and in the matter of seconds:
fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness
fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.
⎯ Christopher Poindexter