{"author":"Charlotte Eriksson","author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson","total_quotes":205,"quotes":[{"text":"I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["break-up","charlotte-eriksson","drunk","growing-up","leave","leaving","letters","lost-love","poetry","prose","prose-poetry","sad","the-glass-child","tumblr-writer","youth"],"id":16420,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["becoming","character-building","growing-up","heartbreak","learning-by-doing","life","living","love"],"id":17101,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["comfort-zone","courage","inspiration","motivation","music","self-growth","solitude"],"id":19926,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"... And you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["beat-the-odds","charlotte-eriksson","determination","dreams","fit-in","go-your-own-way","goals","independent","inspiration","inspiring","life","living","motivation","motivational","persistance","prose","quote","songwriter","stand-out","the-glass-child"],"id":20071,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["dante","life","love","medea","petrarch","shakespeare","writing"],"id":21847,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["breakup","change","endings","last-time","love","missing","poetry"],"id":22257,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there’s anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying ”here’s to the youth”, pointing at me. And I might just be youngand naivefor I still believe in the freedom of choiceof how to spend your life.So they toast to the youth, who still think she’s free, and that’s all fine by me.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["berlin","drinks","drunk","free","freedom","growing-up","life","location-independent","making-a-living","money","nomadic","self-reliance","songwriter","unemployment","vagabond","wanderer","youth"],"id":27422,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Great growth comes from loneliness. You have time to develop, dwell in your own mind and go a bit mad. All great people are a bit mad. That’s good to remember. Don’t escape it. Great growth comes from time spent in foreign lands, watching foreign people with foreign cultures. It makes you forget about your own land and race and town for a while. Great growth also comes from rooting yourself into one place from time to time. Unpack your bags, get a nice bed, a book shelf, some friends. Learn to show up, keep in touch, stick around. Growth comes in all sort of forms and shapes, everywhere at all times, and it’s yours to take and consume. Do what ought to be done. Here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["advice","art","cultures","develop","developing","foreign-lands","growing","growth","inspiration","learning","life-advice","living","loneliness","lonely","mad","mind","motivation","self-development","self-growth","solitude","travel","writers-life"],"id":29078,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.Run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["ache","alive","alone","awake","blood","body","bright","burn","fire","flames","forest","free","free-will","hurricane","independent","lit","litquote","morning","myself","night","organized","people","poetry","prose","prose-poetry","run","solitude","songwriter","sunday","sunday-morning","the-glass-child","walls","wild"],"id":29181,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["anxiety","be-okay","crying","hopeless","hurt","mental-health","okay","panic","panic-attack","panic-attacks","recovery","sad","sadness","self-destruction","self-harm","sky","tears"],"id":29591,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":205,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}