Kat Savage > Quotes

“Most love, I've observed, is narcissism at its finest and most cunning. Love is always about how you feel but not necessarily how the other person feels. The notion that simply because you love someone they should be willing to love you in return.”
― Kat Savage, Mad Woman

“I am not an emptier
I can’t put something down to pick something else up.
I don’t unlove someone
to love someone else.
They pile in my heart,
one on top of the other
until I can’t tell them apart.
Old loves are a bottomless
well of ink in my chest,
and I dip my fingers in often.
If you have ever known my love
it still exists here.
This is my gift and
my curse, my burden
my ache and my fuel.”
― Kat Savage

“I miss you in pieces. Only in pieces. I never allow myself to miss the whole of you. I wouldn't survive it. And neither would you.”
― Kat Savage, Mad Woman

“and your smug smile
will be the death of you
I will ruin you,
ruin the idea of me for you,
ruin what you think you want”
― Kat Savage, I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable

“I know somewhere
you have my heart in an exhibit,
with pins holding it open on display
in one of those cases that usually keep
beautiful dead butterflies.
I know you like to watch as it
struggles through the agony
still trying to beat for you
in all its reckless glory.”
― Kat Savage, Learning to Speak

“Language can make a murderer a saint, a victim deserving, and a lover a stranger.”
― Kat Savage, Mad Woman

“You will never know what hit you,
a sucker punch to your belief system,
I will stand over you,
laughing,
asking you to tell me again
how you will wreck you”
― Kat Savage, I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable

“Be kind to your body, woman, goddess Be kind to it because others may not”
― Kat Savage, I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable: Poems

“Jesus. Goddamn. Forgive me, Father. Christ.”
― Kat Savage, Hawk

“And if you could stop looping back around to take
a little more of me each time,
I think I could heal.
I can't let you use me as a pit stop anymore.
I can't let you come and go as you please.”
― Kat Savage, Learning to Speak

“We want to believe we are good and kind and fair But the I remember Medusa, snakes for hair, the monster they made her I think about women today, punished for being raped, just like her I just don’t think they know yet the monsters they are making”
― Kat Savage, I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable: Poems

“In so many ways
you think I am beautiful,
and in so many ways
you are relieved to be
at a safe distance.
You cannot look away
from my magnificence,
but you are so glad
you are not mangled
in my steel.”
― Kat Savage, Learning to Speak

“tell me,
how many times you lost your voice to someone who wasn't even listening?”
― Kat Savage

“My heart is an abandoned house,
with the windows boarded up
and the front doorknob missing.
People came to visit,
they came and went,
left their garbage,
left anything they no longer wanted.
There are ghosts in the walls
and regret has been ground into
the carpet.
No one wants to live here.
Not even me.”
― Kat Savage, Learning to Speak

“All the women of my family embrace and pass on their unhealthy obsessions with weight, with body image, an inheritance I never asked for, one I hope I can escape.”
― Kat Savage, Fat Girl Magic