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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

Did you tell people that songs weren't the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?

I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are
still together.

There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.

You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.

No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark.

You haven't healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

I've heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

to love and lose and still be kind

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.

I learn urgently
the architecture of loss
then find you again.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church.

I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

You can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.

Your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back.

I belong deeply to myself.

Her body is one long sigh.

If it'll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.