Yves Olade Quotes

You can have my heart if you have the stomach to take it. Kiss me hard enough to invert me.

You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.

All that matters is that you want me. Say the word & I’ll burn for ten days.

I fell onto love like a sword,

our mouths are wounds that speak in tongues of healing. we say, sacrifice. we mean, murder. our lips are red for a reason.

I know how your rage can light a thunderstorm or flood a town; so if there's ever blood on your hands again, I want it to be mine.

I called from the wrong side of a fire door to tell you that I might come home. static and silence. then you said, don’t.

So I fell into the space between my body & the ground — a longing named gravity. A desire born impossibly hungry.

our mouths are wounds that speak in tongues of healing. we say, sacrifice. we mean, murder. our lips arered for a reason.

O, how much kindness there is between the thought of violence & it’s fulfilment.

& in the end I carved my scream from my throat myself. violence always my first instinct

He cut the heart out of me all peach stone, & crushed me to pieces pomegranate.

I imagine my heart a revolver warm as your chest beneath my hand & every chamber of it open & totally empty. spin the cylinder of its atrium & watch how nothing comes out.

Maybe I’m tired of rooms full of knives & still being the most dangerous thing around.

Crack open the caverns of my heart and see: every chamber has a bullet inside it.