“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes, acting… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I said ”I love you so much it’s killing me” and you kept saying sorry so I stopped explaining for it never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every second every kiss & every… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You’re lonely,” they say, but it doesn’t scare me anymore for it teaches me, and maybe that’s the biggest win from these… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you, I will… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It could be yesterday when I was less in love I think For I didn’t see you in the mirror behind me… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“And so you live like this, day after day, striving and fighting simply to become, or even better - to be. Something better, something… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“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… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What it’s like… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“I was still sad and heartbroken, desperately trying to get him back. But it only took one night with someone new who looked at… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle and your hands in mine.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
“I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share
