Megan > Megan's Quotes

“Don't have much else to say, my brain is about having brain scum all over you, much as I did, because it kept acting up.”
― Dodie Bellamy, Cunt-Ups

“Put your head in my pussy, my refrigerator where all the bees want to go, honey.”
― Dodie Bellamy, Cunt-Ups

“It's been a long time
since I wanted to die,
it makes me feel
like taking off my skin suit
and seeing how
my light flies all
on its own, neon
and bouncy like a
wannabe star.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“My sneakers erupted with silent flares: the world's smallest ambulances, going nowhere.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The city throbbed, shimmered. Then, trying to snap himself out of it, he said, “Fuck Coca-Cola.” “Yeah, Sprite for life, fuckers,” I added, not knowing then what I know now: that Coca-Cola and Sprite were made by the same damn company. That no matter who you are or what you love or where you stand, it was always Coca-Cola in the end.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“They will want you to succeed, but never more than them. They will write their names on your leash and call you necessary, call you urgent.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It's hard
feeling like a carcass bc u literally can't *feel*
like a carcass. You feel around instead.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“How do statues become more galvanizing than refugees
is not something I wd include in a nature poem.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“My thumb isn't terribly green but it's terribly thumbing at me.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“*oh, but you don't look very Indian* is a thing ppl feel comfortable saying to me on dates.

What rhymes with, *fuck off and die?*”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence - but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The one good thing about national anthems is that we’re already on our feet, and therefore ready to run. The truth is one nation, under drugs, under drones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I believe the wound is also the place where the skin reencounters itself, asking of each end, where have you been?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Our hands empty except for our hands.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I wanted to cry but did not yet know how to in English. So I did nothing.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Maybe in the next life we’ll meet each other for the first time—believing in everything but the harm we’re capable of.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”
― Jane Austen