ALL THE STORIES ABOUT GODHOOD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MEN. HOW, THEN, ARE THE TO BE BELIEVED? LESS HAVING FAITH IN A HIGHER POWER, THAN HAVING FAITH IN MEN TO NOT MISTYPE

The people are leaving, he says, and the forest is gonna come back and take what's hers

Honey, don't you know that hunger is just another word for god?

When I place my mouth on your neck I am saying "I love you so much I would swallow you if I could, just so I would neer have to walk away from you"When I wrap you up in my spiderweb arms at night I am saying "I want you. Even in my dreams I want you. I will want you when we are ghosts"When I put your fingertips to the veins of my closed eyelids I am saying "I want to be seen in a way there are no words for

It's okay, he says, it's ok, When we're gone, the wolves can have their homecoming

I'm never going to say male rape and abuse victims don't deserve as much care and support as female ones, but look at who is hurting them, and look at who built this system of hurt

TELL ME, WHEN WILL I HEAR WHAT IT MEANS TO EXIST FROM THE STARS?

All of this to say that when my mother was finally convinced I hadn't been raped into lesbianism, she said Oh well you just haven't found the right man

I look through old photo albums and wish I could have met the woman that died so I could be born

This intense, black-blooded girl who lived like she was juggling chainsaws, like she was just waiting for the moon to open its mouth and swallow her whole