྿ Own Happiness ࿐

I think we still live in a culture that assumes that men are single by choice and women are single because no one wants them.

Do not try to be pretty. You weren’t meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don’t let anyone ever simplify you to just “pretty.”

Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

What To Do When Your Boyfriend’s Asshole Best Friend Says, “Hey, Never Trust Anything That Bleeds For Seven Days And Doesn’t Die, Right?” OR The Only Poem I’ll Ever Write About Periods. Don’t excuse him because he’s had at least three lite beers and is sweating through his black button down that his mom or exgirlfriend probably bought him. Don’t excuse him because he’s been turned down by the last six girls he went on dates with after meeting them on tindr with a picture that’s seven years old Don’t excuse him because he’s usually such a nice guy because you don’t want to be a bitch because you don’t want to cause a scene because when you were seventeen your sister told you no one likes an angry feminist Tell him, Hey, Asshole: Let me explain something to you. Every goddamn motherfucking month since I was eleven, a part of me tore itself to shreds ripped itself apart inside me and then remade itself. So yes, I bleed for seven days and I don’t die You know what else can do that? Gods. Immortal beings. Things of legend. Fuck, I can even create life. So I say, never trust anything that can’t bleed for seven days and not die. You know what that makes it? Weak Fallible Mortal. So let’s see, hon, What you’re made of. If you can bleed for seven days and not die. Rip out his jugular with your teeth. And when he bleeds for seven seconds and dies, spit on his corpse and say, I thought not.

People think of education as something they can finish.

I would hate to be a person that only looked forward to the weekend, what a waste of 5 days.