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Paper Hearts

“Paper Hearts” is Lauren Jarvis-Gibson’s debut poetry collection. Through her delicate yet incredibly honest words, she skillfully navigates the experience of what it’s like to slowly build one’s self back up after being broken. “Paper Hearts” effortlessl

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“Do not be afraid. For you were made to love as your heart was made to beat.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, human, Meant To Be

“Always remember that you were a someone before he ever walked into your wildfire.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: remember, before him, Self-Love

“Love yourself the same way the sun greets the dying dawn.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Love, sunrise, Poetry

“Love yourself the same way the ocean kisses dusty sands.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Self-Love, Love Yourself

“Love yourself the same way stars hug the lonely sky.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: In love, Self-Love, Love Yourself

“Isn’t it funny how time changes everything except for our love affair with the past?”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: time heals, The Past Is The Past, Nostalgia

“I love so hard yet all I get in return are questions marks, blank spaces, and silence.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, In love, Heartbroken

“They tell me so casually that I’ll find ‘the one’ some day. ‘It’ll just take time. It’ll just take patience.’ I don’t have the heart to say I found mine years ago but he didn’t have the strength to stay.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: some day, The One, The One That Got Away

“I wonder if she knows that you told me once you would never love anyone like you loved me. I hope she never finds out.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep Love, new girlfriend, Moving On

“Time doesn’t heal wounds to make you forget. Time leaves you with a scar to remind you of how you bled and how you survived.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Time Heals All Wounds, Scars, survive

“The doctor says it’s asthma. The psychiatrist says it’s anxiety. But deep down inside I know that the day you walked out, the day you told me to go was the day I stopped knowing how to breathe.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Breathless, Anxiety, breakup

“You filled me up with raindrops that pounded on the window, watching us dance between white sheets. Now you just fill me up with my own damn poetry forever drenched in your ghost.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Broken Heart, bring me sadness, Over you

“If you could look at yourself through my eyes, if you could hear yourself through my ears, if you could see yourself through my rearview mirror...you’d know what love was.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Past Love, through my eyes, What Love Does

“Our love will always hang onto the fragments I write at 2 a.m. Our love still breathes with every word that I exhale out of me.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com

Tagged: Still Into You, Late Night Quotes, Not Over You