Quotes by Charlotte Eriksson

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.

You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.

I’ve been trying to stay real and true and proud of who I am,all those ideals of how to lookI’ve been trying not to care.But I’m still holding my breath, I ‘m still watching every step.I’m still tip-toeing away, when I’m getting to ashamed of myself. I don’t want to be your letdown,I’m scared like hell I’m not enough.I don’t wanna beyour failure anymore.— The Glass Child, Letdown

The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.

“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”

“Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.”

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. Its work and its money and Ive 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 shouldnt 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.”

“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?”

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and Ill be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

“There is no wrong way for reality to play out.”

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

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”