Joan Tierney > Quotes

“I'm never going to say male rape and abuse victims don't deserve as much care and support as female ones, but look at who is hurting them, and look at who built this system of hurt”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“TELL ME, WHEN WILL I HEAR WHAT IT MEANS TO EXIST FROM THE STARS?”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“that's just the heart talking, you can never trust those. pick a more stable organ to listen to, like the spleen, or the gallbladder”
― JOAN TIERNEY, Pine Sap: A Poetry Collection

“The people are leaving, he says, and the forest is gonna come back and take what's hers”
― JOAN TIERNEY

“When I place my mouth on your neck I am saying "I love you so much I would swallow you if I could, just so I would neer have to walk away from you"
When I wrap you up in my spiderweb arms at night I am saying "I want you. Even in my dreams I want you. I will want you when we are ghosts"
When I put your fingertips to the veins of my closed eyelids I am saying "I want to be seen in a way there are no words for”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“It's okay, he says, it's ok, When we're gone, the wolves can have their homecoming”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“Honey, don't you know that hunger is just another word for god?”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“I look through old photo albums and wish I could have met the woman that died so I could be born”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“All of this to say that when my mother was finally convinced I hadn't been raped into lesbianism, she said Oh well you just haven't found the right man”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“ALL THE STORIES ABOUT GODHOOD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MEN. HOW, THEN, ARE THE TO BE BELIEVED? LESS HAVING FAITH IN A HIGHER POWER, THAN HAVING FAITH IN MEN TO NOT MISTYPE”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

“This intense, black-blooded girl who lived like she was juggling chainsaws, like she was just waiting for the moon to open its mouth and swallow her whole”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map