ice cream headaches

“To love is to unwind the long thread of your heart and, at the end, tie a noose.”

“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

“You might not have been my first love, but you were the love, that made all the other loves irrelevant.”

“Relax wild one. It’s not your job to be everything everyone needs, and you don’t have to be impressive to be loved. Stop trying so hard. Just show up … and be real with the world. That is enough.”

You are a church of broken glass and hallelujahs. You are haunted like every other holy thing. What tried to destroy you didn't have the strength. Still you stand. Sturdy and smelling of smoke.

“The grief / of what hasn’t yet happened—”