He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.
– Dominic Riccitello
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- It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. – Dominic Riccitello
- Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
- Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less. – Dominic Riccitello
- I touched him. From brain to body, in ways I couldn’t quite understand. But he did and for him, that was all that mattered. – Dominic Riccitello
- On Pilgrim’s Progress: -œI could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too. – Dominic Riccitello
- I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it. – Dominic Riccitello
- Loving him made me never want to love another human being. – Dominic Riccitello
- The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him. – Dominic Riccitello
- I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy. – Dominic Riccitello
- You want to know what I loved about him? Everything. From a freckle on his ass down to his undying selfish need to always be right. – Dominic Riccitello
- I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up. – Dominic Riccitello
- I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand. – Dominic Riccitello
- You’re not supposed to be in a relationship because it’s comfortable, it’s supposed to be because they make you a better person. – Dominic Riccitello
- He’d believed it. She couldn’t believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that. – Marie Rutkoski
- Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person. – Cherise Sinclair
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it. – Dominic Riccitello
- It’ll always be mine, but it’ll always be your heart. – Dominic Riccitello
- I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four. – Dominic Riccitello
- It wasn’t good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that. – Dominic Riccitello
- Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you. – Dominic Riccitello
- I loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you. – Dominic Riccitello
- Loving you was easy. Hating you was hard. Falling out was insane. – Dominic Riccitello
- You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster. – Dominic Riccitello
- Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing. – Dominic Riccitello
- It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them. – Dominic Riccitello
- They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids. – Dominic Riccitello
- I write the right. I do the left. – Dominic Riccitello
- We do things because we want it, not because they’re good for us. – Dominic Riccitello
- I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future. – Dominic Riccitello
- You don’t get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it’s yours and no longer theirs. – Dominic Riccitello
- I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going. – Dominic Riccitello
- It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying. – Dominic Riccitello
- All of my bad ideas were always my best. – Dominic Riccitello
- They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life. – Dominic Riccitello
- Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too. – Dominic Riccitello
- He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it. – Dominic Riccitello
- And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered. – Dominic Riccitello
- I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever? – Dominic Riccitello