MOLLY KOENIG

There’s nothing preventing me and you from loving each other and being some kinda world-class shining beacon of love except how bad do we want it and what are we willing to do for it?

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Ethan Hawke, Ash Wednesday

Another perfect day, they keep piling up.
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Monsters of Folk, Ahead of the Curve

"But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?  How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?"
"You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people.”
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Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

Stay is a sensitive word.  We wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever.

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Nayyirah Waheed

Nunc scio quid sit amor, Now I know what love is.
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Virgil

Tonight we'll leave all our lovers behind and try to live a quiet life.
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Margot & the Nuclear So-and-Sos, Dress Me Like a Clown

I don't need any help to be breakable, believe me.  I won't need any help to be lonely when you leave me, it'll be easy to cover.

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The National, Slipped

I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

You put your hand around my back, I guess you thought I needed that.

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The National, The Perfect Song

...but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

Can you feel my love, yes it's real my love.

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Railroad Earth, Real Love

And I hope that when we go, they take us some place good, where we can all be kings in common neighborhoods.

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Jackie Greene, Prayer for Spanish Harlem