Erica Alex > Quotes

“Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.”
― Erica Alex

“I, too, am a planet whose path creates a celestial pentagram.”
― Erica Alex

“Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.”
― Erica Alex

“Curiosity killed the existential dread.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Consulting one’s own self as oracle.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“You wanted the horror of having me, godlike; occult.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“I allowed my heart to dance for you and still you broke its legs.”
― Erica Alex

“Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.”
― Erica Alex

“All mother witches blew in from Egypt and other ancient African air.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Basking at the intersection of poetry and prophecy.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.”
― Erica Alex

“The only way to the stars is up through the heart.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“A soft spot for night creatures, i.e., cats and women.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Empowered by my many resurrections.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Self-care is going off into the desert and letting the aliens fucking take you.”
― Erica Alex

“And I scoop the ghost of you out of me.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Meet me deep in the heart or nowhere at all.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling.”
― Erica Alex

“Empowered by my own utter nonsense.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Initiated at birth by the Balsamic Moon.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Crossing the heart-bridge; entering cosmos.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“The sole appropriate burial is to be scorched back into the cosmos.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Planets, incessantly ringing in each of my ears.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you're alone with yourself.”
― Erica Alex

“The present apocalypse silences so we may hear.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“The Hades Moon drew first blood.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Beauty brews in silence and the dark.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Reinvention is no rushed religion.”
― Erica Alex

“I deserve a luscious afterlife.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Multiple streams of incoming prophetic visions.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew