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friction.it takes more than just
fucking someone on a cold
night to keep you warm.

i'm never careful enoughThe roads here wind in ways that I don't expect.

Sometimes, I think that dashed yellow line is the only thing that keeps me moving the right way. That keeps me going. Because one wrong move could send me barreling off the highway and the freefall feeling that would come next is not something I'm unfamiliar with. It's the same thing that happens every time I think of you. I can't get over how much this place reminds me of you. I can't get over how little room there is between full-fledged fear and being in love.

Sometimes, I think maybe they're the same thing.

I don't know what keeps bringing me back here. But I find myself coming here more

we have the softest heartbeatsi don't know what it means when you say
you don't know what i mean.

the implications of my every sentence stain the
atmosphere like neon lights and i'm left wondering
how you can still be so clueless. how after
all this time. after all the sentences we traded
with each other. after every minute that makes
the miles smaller. you still don't get it. how
you could still not get me.

this is the part where i need to remind myself
that you were never mine.

you've never been anyone's because there isn't
a sentence simple enough to make you stay so
three words and eight letters won't leave you
breathless in between my bed sheet

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but we're never so clever.by ~paperheartsyndrome

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this is a silly little thing.

blah blah. i have a tumblr where i post more silly little things.

~~love 0 0~~

joy 2 2

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

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~annepam Jul 18, 2011

whats your url?.. i will follow you.. XD

~paperheartsyndrome Jul 18, 2011 Writer

great! it's the obvious one: paperheartsyndrome.tumblr.com (:

~Jude-R Apr 7, 2011 Student General Artist

Wow, word have such a great power a you know how to use it! Beautiful.

~paperheartsyndrome Apr 7, 2011 Writer

thank you <3

~Jude-R Apr 8, 2011 Student General Artist

You're welcome!

=Timberwolf0316 Jan 6, 2011

I have just a few Typographic critiques on this:

I'd watch some of you're kerning.
Also your leading between lines.
It bothers me that the y and w touch but no other letters do. also the "h" in "other" and the "O" in "love"
There is also alot of tension between the stark black type and the very faded colored background. This wouldn't
be so bad if your water mark wasn't right inside the main focus.

But anyway, it's very sweet

Keep up the good work

~paperheartsyndrome Jan 6, 2011 Writer

absolutely yes. i noticed that leading issue. after i posted this.
to be quite honest these are actually just quick fun projects i do in between bigger and more arduous ones. so a lot of times i get sloppy. not really excusable but a fact. i intend to clean them up someday.

i'm actually pretty cool with the tension. a matter of opinion really. (: but i could see how it's bothersome

and as to the watermark. unfortunately they kinda have to be in the middle of the focus. if i put it outside, it'd be easy to photoshop out. i think they are ugly and never used them until i found one of my pieces all over the internet without credit to me. then it just gets irksome and watermarks come into play making everything ugly.

thank you for your comments. I appreciate getting input from people who actually know design. since like i mentioned i tend to get sloppy.

=Timberwolf0316 Jan 6, 2011

<3 Well I think they are fantastic for "Quick fun projects"
I hope I didn't seem rude, I was just working on a few
projects myself and I rarely ever give advice (I feel like
it's not my place) but I saw such beauty I just wanted to
through my two cents in I guess

Keep up the great work

I look forward to seeing more!

~pawan4rfrnds Jan 5, 2011 Interface Designer

Beautiful typography...n not jst silly artwork

~paperheartsyndrome Jan 9, 2011 Writer

awh, thank you so much!

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