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“His mind betrayed him and now we were all victims of the horrible deception.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“It was just a game for you-your flames blazed brighter
And with my sizzling coals, I mistakenly thought I was the strong one-

You drew me in as easily as you put me out.”
― Maddy Kobar, Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems

“My madness was too much for them and it was my affliction.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Be them good times,
Be them bad times,
I swear to you
They never last!”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Care: not carnage
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Just because I am queer doesn't mean I am queer for you”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“I wanted to kiss her. She looked like the picture of peace, but I knew better to keep my passion to myself. Instead I put my lips to my wine glass, pretending that it was her. The taste was sticky sweet, but certainly not as satisfying.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“I had assumed that a boy who loved me so intensely was full of happiness, love, and light so that he was free of his own demons and pain.

My assumption was entirely wrong.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Father didn't want to seem weak in front of us and that itself was a weakness.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“Don't confuse me for that other girl,
She's a fraud and a fool.
Don't confuse me with anyone else,
I am not anyone other than myself.”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“I guess I have no choice
But to toss all novels under the rug
Nothing can compete with the poetry bug”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Power within
A wiser woman kin
I cannot give her
The proper word
She is worth so much more
She is the one that should be adored”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Without wisdom, she will fall”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“He is the illusion of which you dream.
He is a beautiful afterthought
Of all the words of love left unspoken.”
― Maddy Kobar, Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems

“And in uttering that
Excellently executed truth
You become an artist too”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“The moon did warn me
How shadows love to play
Tricks on eyes too willing to believe
Sending hearts into chaos and disarray”
― Maddy Kobar, Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems

“Robert would allow me to cry as I desperately needed to. At least he'd understand that this need to keep up a perfect appearance had been slowly killing me.

Though I hated to admit it; in some ways, Robert had been right all along. You couldn't live without feeling. Denying yourself was a terrible destructive thing that wore on you.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“I came out here because I didn't want to rot at home alone. Could he even begin to conceive how perfectly wretched it was to have your entire life already planned for you when you were just seventeen?”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I was beginning to understand why Harold didn't like being around large numbers of people; if you were at all different, people were apt to stare.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I froze at his words. He cried those tears that I was afraid of spilling myself.

My numbness burned me; I let those tears fly now to think of him like that. We were both tormented by the trials of this life; trials which had to be endured if we were to continue living.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“Keep your temperance, Alexander. I want to live!" He threw his hands into the air and he smiled out to the wide skies above.

That's what hope looks like, I thought.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“In regards to the candle that burns at both ends-
how brilliant the light is for the beholder!
How beautiful the pain of that candle is
To those who only witness from afar,
But will never truly feel the price of such a shine.”
― Maddy Kobar, Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems

“She'd see that I loved her in that way I had thought I had loved all the girls before her; openly, desperately hoping for my affections returned with the same warmth and passion.

That's how I lost them all, I had wanted far too much.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“Why I love these words
They are mine
You cannot change that
You cannot rearrange that
Try as you might
You cannot take away
All that they mean to me”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Oh, I know that
I'll never be perfect
I'm just alive”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“I had lost so much love in this life and for this fading poet; love is life.

If I cannot love any longer, then my life is forfeit.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“I'd gladly trade the world
And all of its gold,
To see you safe in this fragile life.”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“Sewn together patterns,
like many clashing moods,
She wears what
No others dare”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“You see Alexander was my weakness just as I was his. No one in the world had fought for me as relentlessly as he always had; ever since I was a just baby in the crib. Neither Father nor Mother when she lived, ever made him do it for me. It was entirely of his own volition.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon