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Sweet tooth for you— I can’t hide how I’m smitten. You’ve got me grinning for no reason, and thinking about kissing. — Dede Hawkins

May your heart rest easy. May your days feel lighter. May love find you often. May peace remember your name. — Dede Hawkins ❤️

Feel everything— and still choose wonder. — Dede Hawkins

“Wonder is my rebellion.” —Dede Hawkins

i hold nothing but sunshine for you

Some days make no sense until later. Faith is knowing the story is still on your side. — Dede Hawkins

Speak to yourself with love, you are the one voice your heart hears every day. Let it be kind. — Dede Hawkins

Part sea, part starlight, all freedom. — Dede Hawkins

I was never meant to choose between wild and holy — I am both. — Dede Hawkins

I carry wilderness in my bones and reverence in my breath- I was never one or the other. —Dede Hawkins

she looks like sin and prays like a saint kissed by ruin, crowned in regret, wearing heartbreak like red lipstick she only smears on nights she swears she’s done with love and still lets you in

Something reckless is blooming in my ribs again — not chaos, just color. — Dede Hawkins

You don’t owe anyone a history lesson to protect your peace. “No” is a full sentence. — Dede Hawkins

“It wasn’t a setback. It was a threshold.” —Dede Hawkins

Some endings aren't punishments. They are redirections wearing heartbreak as camouflage. Dede Hawkins

Don’t call her fragile because she blooms in quiet places. She is not made of petals — she is made of roots, deep as dusk and luminous as the first star brave enough to appear. — Dede Hawkins

When my heart can’t translate itself, music does. — Dede Hawkins