Prose Quotes by Charlotte Eriksson

“If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured…

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“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

“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“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

“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every second every kiss & every…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“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