Quotes from Halsey

I wonder what I'll ever have control of. Rejection breeds obsession, so they say. I left my heart and all my hope, my vindicated tales of woe in Sweden on a freezing winter day.

A beautiful woman is a car crash. Shiny asphalt and smoking rubber. Melted plastic and metal edges. Glimmering glass shrapnel iridescence scattered across the road. Haphazard beauty. Dignified and slightly terrifying.

I keep a pistol when I sleep -inside my mouth so I don't fight my tongue -for saying all these things, like how I saw you in my dreams.

I love the coffee for staining your teeth, and warming your palms in the morning. I would protect you till the end of time. I would lie down, in the middle of tornado, and cover you.

See, I've started taking down All of my favorite little sounds. That waltz around you in 3 quarter notes With each word you pronounce

can't carry all this weight, so I must put it somewhere and somewhere is with you. You will take good care of it?

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

You've been singing on your own all along Writing records in your room since 15 Drama queen Well you're older now it seems

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.

I love you more than I love anybody

Thank you for warming the industrial gray of my concrete foundation and turning my bones from cement blocks to rich mahogany wood.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.

Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.

cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father

Been biting my tongue till it bleeds cry over things I don't need. My mother told me pick your battles wisely but you made me angry at the world so I chose them all.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said. I don't want to be this way, but I have been since you left.

There are people passing by in their cars unaware and unassuming but I'm praying they'll look over and watch me worship you.

He's got big dreams like you can't believe

But I will never believe That I belong to the side with the guillotine. (You should eat the rich Even if that includes me.)

But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early.

When all your lovers start to die. You wake alone and wonder why they left you here to document the wreckage. They tell me that it's art I make, in all this chaos I create.

The year is 2018 and I've realized that nobody is safe as long as she is alive and every friend that I know has a story like mine.

I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen

But we are not free until all of us are free. So love your neighbor. Please treat her kindly. Ask her her story, then shut up and listen. Black Asian poor wealthy Trans Cis Muslim Christian Listen. LISTEN. And then yell at the top of your lungs. Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues, for the people who had to grow up way too young, there is work to be done, there are songs to be sung, Lord knows there's a war to be won.