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What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone. It felt true, but it did not feel like all of the truth.
“And the spaces that he never saw: the ones my parents
had labeled private parts when I was still small enough
to fit all of my self and worries inside a bathtub,
I made up for them by handing over all the private parts of me.
There was no secret I did not tell him,
there was no moment we did not share.
We didn't grow up, we grew in: like ivy wrapping,
molding each other into perfect yins and yangs.”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
had labeled private parts when I was still small enough
to fit all of my self and worries inside a bathtub,
I made up for them by handing over all the private parts of me.
There was no secret I did not tell him,
there was no moment we did not share.
We didn't grow up, we grew in: like ivy wrapping,
molding each other into perfect yins and yangs.”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
“It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.”
― Release
― Release
“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
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“Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks.”
― No Matter the Wreckage
― No Matter the Wreckage
“Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.”
― Release
― Release
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