“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― The Madness Vase
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― The Madness Vase
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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