Erin Matlock Quotes

Never did exist a finer time than the love we made inside this mind. It’s a lonely brand of sad missing someone you never had.

Promise me you will not grow so strong that there is no one left to be strong enough for you.

They closed in and grabbed her wings knowing if they pulled hard enough they could snap them. So she kept running praying with every step she might be able to outlast them. When she finally broke free of the last tie that bound her she collapsed shaken and exhausted. Carry on my sweet child it’s your stubborn heart and your wild mind that will never let them tame you. And when you wonder if you will ever again climb that high your wings may be bruised but oh do they remember how to fly.

One by one each petal fell until what bound us withered away. Turns out those I thought I needed never planned to stay. So now I stand more sure than ever, I grew strong enough for the storm I’m meant to weather.

I asked the mountain if I was strong enough to live. She said I was weak enough to love.

If you have come through this life bruised and scarred, I hope you are kind to yourself when you see where you were and where you've come to be. Life handed you the journey you were meant for even though it's one you never asked for. Your lessons, brutal as they came, have aged your soul and proven the strength of your spirit. This life is fleeting, and the mountains are waiting. Rise up. Speak out. Love hard. Fall down. Get up. Get up. Get back up.

I search for you in faces I don’t know hoping something about them will remind me. One right word and I can hear you. One right look and I can feel you. I’m slowly gathering pieces of my familiar. They say you’ve been gone long enough that the things I never told you shouldn’t take so much of my mind. But you were the promise of a different kind. So lifetimes I will search for you with no shame, darling I still go weak when I hear your name.

He was a mirror for who I used to be. The young me. The wild me. Before the first snap of my heart. And when I looked at him I came home.

They stared at each other eyes locked from across the room. Two souls who’d spent forever together, two hearts who’d just met.