“Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — 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
“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave… — 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 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
“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
“So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and… — 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
“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
“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
“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 know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional… — 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
“... 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 never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you… — 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
“... and it was quite a sad thing, the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now.… — 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
“People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break… — 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
“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
“It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
