We were born to stand out

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“We try to hide our feelings but we forget our eyes speak.”

“When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.”

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

In a dream, I have my own manifesto. I stop calling my lovers the ocean and the sky. Stop believing that men are the bread when I sat hungry all my life at a table for one.

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”