“Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“Over and over, the answer is the same, isn’t it? Love, love, love. The salve and the cure. In order to become a better person, I had to do something utterly unintuitive. I had to reject the idea that punishing myself would solve the problem. I had to find the love.”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“You don’t have to fix anything to deserve love. I love you for who you are. You can fuck up. You can do whatever you want and you’ll still deserve love.”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“but i am what i
am. woman. alone
amid all this noise.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
am. woman. alone
amid all this noise.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
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