“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
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“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
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“I’ve heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“By the time I’ve finished with you,
you won’t know whether you’ve been kissed or cut,
whether you were loved or butchered.
and either way you probably won’t care,
just grateful you came close enough to touch.”
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you won’t know whether you’ve been kissed or cut,
whether you were loved or butchered.
and either way you probably won’t care,
just grateful you came close enough to touch.”
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“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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