Maria Tiaka

“I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“People use each other
as a healing for their pain. They put each other
on their existential wound,
on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand.
They hold each other and won’t let go.”
― Yehuda Amichai

“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey