Shannah-marie

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Your daughter’s face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear,
a body littered with ugly things,

but God,
doesn’t she wear
the world well.”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone