I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle
and your hands in mine.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
And you can ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don�...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighte...
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 thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poet...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's wor...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and no...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip
let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin...
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 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So now it’s this thing I do.
I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,
to new pla...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me h...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It’s the beating of my heart.
The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened t...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an hour
or two.
This is your fai...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who hav...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So I was a stone in the sea.
Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I wil...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I do...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and th...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for materi...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am not a broken heart.
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Am I making something worth while?
I’m not sure.
I write and I sing and I hear words fro...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON There were days when I still put on make up
in case you’d come back,
but I wear the sam...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friend...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and det...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that i...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, sayi...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the wi...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am not sad anymore.
I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take c...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promis...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was ru...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I will miss
my chest exploding
you coming home late
not turning on the light
alw...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespea...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my vein...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walki...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Don’t forget that the land is always out there, making its way, doing everything it can so you can...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a livin...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pas...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home i...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It could have been so beautiful.
The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them fe...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I tho...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for a...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I fee...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be. With no effort or trying, just sl...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am a complicated person with a simple life.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... and isn't the world a treasure in itself? A spectacle glittering every single day, without a con...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I w...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into pla...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don’t see anywhere you want to ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up a...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON This year has taught me the simple craft of belief. I believe in the things I’ve nurtured and buil...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I don't believe in the hero that sets out to climb a mountain and achieves it with no setbacks. I he...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It's fun to pass the puck. We had some good goals.
LOUI ERIKSSON They have been playing really good. We must play better because Omaha is playing good now.
LOUI ERIKSSON The negotiations have gone well.
PETER ERIKSSON The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I should be happy if we can go on playing like we did, I think we played a fantastic game yesterday....
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I have spoken to David James today and explained to him that, on this occasion, I think it's best no...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON It's a World Cup ticket we're talking about now - life or death.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON Of course they are a pack of lies.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON If we play like that again we may not even get to the World Cup.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I am very sorry and angry about the second half. That was a disaster,
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has b...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I am quite sure they are a little bit angry, they want revenge. I think they've wanted that since Mo...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I'm almost sure, 100 percent certain that he will be fit for tomorrow. He did everything today, even...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON You tell him certain things and he does them. The game he played in Portugal for us in February was ...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I am very sorry for the fans. I told (the players) that if we are going to play football like this w...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I am delighted that we now know we will be taking part in the World Cup in Germany next year,
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON For Wales and Northern Ireland, it's a dream to beat England and we have to deal with that. It's lik...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I think England should be happy, there are groups much more difficult than England's. The man after ...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON Michael is a fantastic striker and very important for his club and for England. I hope he returns to...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I talked to the Swedish coach before the draw and we agreed we did not want to meet at this World Cu...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON If you want to criticize me, do it. We did the job anyhow.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON From what I have read and heard, it could be that Owen is going to Manchester United.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON After winning the treble, he should have said 'thank you, goodbye'.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I'm delighted that we have been able to finalize these fixtures quickly and am very pleased with our...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON We are extremely disappointed that these allegations were ever brought into the public domain, parti...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON It was a collective collapse. In the second half if I should take the players individually, I would ...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON It's a great partnership. Michael Owen will score goals for them and it's great that he can play tog...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON I don't remember anyone making such an impact on a tournament since Pele in the 1958 World Cup in Sw...
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister.
CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos...
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë