You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time, and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do. That's what makes an artist.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again, and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest, and if you see a fire from the shore tonight it’s my chains going up in flames.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

— Charlotte Eriksson

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. Furthermore, you need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise. You’re doing just fine.

— Charlotte Eriksson

You’re lonely,” they say, but it doesn’t scare me anymore for it teaches me, and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. I don’t break mirrors anymore, like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself, and I never thought I would.

— Charlotte Eriksson