per aspera

“I will dream today, because I must unscrew my head and somehow freshen up,”

“People like me love only ghosts.”

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”

“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”

“I am tired. These people make me feel I have a hole in the middle of me.”

“I’ve always liked moonless nights best. It’s easier to say things in the dark. It’s easier to be yourself.”

“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”

“I could fuck you all night, from a memory alone”

“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”

“Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?”

“Do not let regret weigh you down. Do not slow down so they can say sorry. Do not look back unless you’re looking at the sunrise. There will always be a new day, and endings birth beginnings.”

“You have a mouth men bless. / You look good enough to bury.”

“There is no patience in this body. There is only enormous wanting. No one speaks of the stunning weight of it— how desire pulls us through the world as though our limbs are attached to the strings of a clumsy marionette.”

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

“I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.”

“You and I know each other in our bones,”