Jordan

“You are the shining thing in the garden. So ripe and filled with life.”
― Judy I. Lin, Song of the Six Realms

“I went up the stairs,
I crossed the roads,
trains carried me,
waters brought me,
and in the skin of the grapes
I thought I touched you.
The wood suddenly
brought me your touch,
the almond announced to me
your secret softness,
until your hands
closed on my chest
and there like two wings
they ended their journey.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

“He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin.
And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal kissing cinder-block walls. It felt just like that.”
― Alisson Wood, Being Lolita

“That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be both beautiful and in open need, to be damaged.”
― Alisson Wood, Being Lolita