Donte Collins > Quotes

“Do you still perform autopsies on conversations you had lives ago?”
― Donte Collins

“Memory taps a gun to your inner skull and demands you bring back the dead.”
― Donte Collins, Autopsy

“Healing is an uncomfortable and lonesome process. It’s why we pick our scabs, it’s why we drunk text our exes.”
― Donte Collins

“i could, so easily, let my heart back inside this burning house.”
― Donte Collins, Autopsy

“confession: the want to die is not always the want not to live, but sometimes
the want to live somewhere softer. where the tall grass lulls my body to sleep
where everything promises to stay alive”
― Donte Collins, Autopsy

“I learned love, first, as scar.
I crave a love that happens as sweetly
as it was named. If love must be swung,
let it soften. Not split”
― Donte Collins

“you desire now, a way to die without losing your body”
― Donte Collins, Autopsy