“How the dead must cringe at our resistance to look as if we've lived.”
― I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
― I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
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“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Questions for Ada
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Questions for Ada
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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