Makitia Thompson > Quotes

“Still, I remain. Because love, in its rawest form is not gentle. It is a tether that bruises the skin, a chain dressed as devotion, a prayer whispered into nothing with the desperate hope that nothing will answer.”
― Makitia Thompson, When The Stars Weep: poems for those who break and mend

“Still, I breathe and each breath is defiance. The stone may sink me, but I will not drown quietly.”
― Makitia Thompson, When The Stars Weep: poems for those who break and mend

“I forgave red flags in favor of fairy tales. And when the daydream faded, I had to meet the version of you I refused to see. And the version of me I'd forgotten to protect.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because i'm still breathing

“She wasn't afraid of dying, what she feared was being erased.”
― Makitia Thompson, It ended by beginning

“There are people out there still living their life like they never broke me. Like their words didn't splinter my self worth into something unrecognisable.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because i'm still breathing

“There are words I've carried so long they've fused with my spine.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because I felt everything

“Stories, like hell, are eternal”
― Makitia Thompson, It ended by beginning

“She'd rather be the victim than the villain. But the real tragedy, she was both.”
― Makitia Thompson, It ended by beginning

“I'm still trying to become something, but I'm tired of mourning someone I never got to be.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because i'm still breathing

“The only judgement he fears is the one he refused to give himself.”
― Makitia Thompson, It ended by beginning

“When you've run your whole life, the act of standing still becomes its own kind of bravery.”
― Makitia Thompson, It ended by beginning

“I'm full of language I'll never be fluent in. And still, I write. Because some confessions only make sense when spoken to the page.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because I felt everything

“Strength is the child of vulnerability, the echo of endurance, the truth that even in despair we were still alive enough to feel.”
― Makitia Thompson, When The Stars Weep: poems for those who break and mend

“I didn't need them to save me, I just wanted them to notice I was drowning.”
― Makitia Thompson, Because i'm still breathing