“And know this:
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You were born to build.”
―
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You were born to build.”
―
“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― On Such a Full Sea
― On Such a Full Sea
“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”
― Room
― Room
“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
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