Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.