Meggy

“I used to envy people who could pick up a knife   and not think to themselves what if I stabbed someone? I watched them cut their steaks so mindlessly, so unafraid. Fork in meat, cut, cut, cut. fork in mouth, repeat. Sometimes I got soup just because I didn’t need a little weapon to eat it. Eating shouldn’t be this hard, life shouldn’t be this hard, and don’t even get me started with scissors. All of these people cutting their steaks and doing their construction paper projects; I must be crazy, because nobody else has these thoughts these bloody thoughts    these what if I killed my sister thoughts.”
― Emily Byrnes, Swim

“I am always wary of people who merely nibble on dessert; I don’t want someone who ruins a whole cookie just to get a taste. --Eat the whole damn thing”
― Emily Byrnes, Swim

“We all have bad yesterdays that we can bask in. But those yesterdays will never come again and neither will the today you are wasting with thoughts of your yesterdays.”
― Jennae Cecelia, I Am More Than My Nightmares

“You and I were sinew connected like muscle to bone.”
― Emily Byrnes, Things I Learned in the Night