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“I know. It’s not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter.”

I miss you more than I remember you.

A comma forced to be a period.

“Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”

"When did this all start? I gave birth to a healthy, normal boy, I know that. When?"

This is all too cruel.

I am a queer body.

“I had thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong.
The rules, they were already inside us.”

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.”

“Cause you never see yourself if you’re the sun, you don’t even know where you are in the sky.”