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Quotes by Dominic Riccitello

I see you in every passing moment.

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it.

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.

People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments.

It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.

It didn’t affect him because he couldn’t fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and different places, which were divided by a constellation.

All of my bad ideas were always my best.

You can’t just be. You have to become.

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending.

I fear falling in love and understanding why.

Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be.

We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally.

They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life.

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less.

Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?

But could words bethe end of me?

Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction.