Florence Gonsalves > Quotes

“I went to college with a very clear idea about who I was. But then life went and bulldozed my entire plan, and now I'm standing in the dirt without a single slab of sorry cement under me. Do you know how scary that bulldozed place is? I have no foundation anymore.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

“I wake up at 3 in the afternoon wondering why, as a swear, f*ck is so much worse than d*mn. You'd think d*mn would be worse, considering your sentencing someone to Hell for eternity, while f*ck in the worst of scenarios is a stranger you'll never see again”
― Florence Gonsalves, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

“I was thinking that you're right about vaginas not being remotely related to flowers. They don't smell the same or feel the same, and they're not pretty in any way that would make you want to put them in a vase in your kitchen." ...
"I'm not saying they can't be in the flower family, just that they can't be a lily or a daffodil. If they had to be a flower ... then they'd be an anomaly-type flower, the badass ones that eat flies."
"Venus fly traps!"
"Exactly”
― Florence Gonsalves

“I'm starting to think I'll never be a woman. Or worst of all, I've actually been one all along.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe

“See? That's everything wrong with the patriarchy and all that scented tampon shit. Vaginas aren't supposed to look like flowers or smell like flowers or be fucking flowers."

"Hold up, I'm not saying they can't be in the flower family, just that they can't be a lily or a daffodil. If they had to be flower, since you've planted this idea in my head, then they'd be an anomaly-type flower, the badass ones that eat flies.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

“Sex is where the thinking stops so that the single best thing that's ever happened to you keeps happening unto you think you might explode. And then you do. It's only after, when your sweat is drying and you're regaining the feeling in your toes that you realize you're some sort of miracle. What else do you call going to pieces without falling apart?”
― Florence Gonsalves, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

“I never realized this particular quality about humans: how utterly tiny we are in the face of everything that happens to us.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe

“I'm just another another animal that has to survive somehow.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe