“...Who I can only assume was Satan wearing the skin of a child.” Joseph Capehart

“Your neck is a whistling firework singing to the light of me. I am only amplifying sound.” Edwin

“i do not slice his tires. i do not burn the photos. i do not write the letter. i do not beg. i..."

“Yeah, you can call me, but I won’t tell you it’s okay. That I forgive you. I won’t say goodbye..."

“Her cooking is best, but the men in my mother’s life have never stayed for seconds.” Jenesis

I have heard that even in space Phil Kaye

“The news reporter says Jesus is white. She says it with a smile on her face, like it’s the most..."

"I'm here to get the job done like Liam Neeson. No, like WD-40. No, like a vibrator. Actually..."

“Joey got a promotion, so now he can afford antidepressants. Joey is Joe, now.” Neil Hilborn

“There are some days when I am so sad that I don’t remember what it’s like to not be.” Reagan Myers

"If the Hood loves you she’ll make a monument of this site. She will bring teddy bears, well..."

“He whispers in my ear to stay in bed for another day presses his palm to my chest afraid I’m..."

“Black is learning how to pronounce the word ‘attempted’ in three different languages.” Dua Saleh

“More guns than people, ass. War on drugs, ass. High divorce rate, ass.” Joseph Capehart

“I’ve been trying to write this letter for six months. I still can’t decide if it should be an..."

“‘I’m not myself in my own home. My family doesn’t actually know me, they talk to my shadow, the..."

“He once said I’m cute when I’m angry. Well, I’m about to look phenomenal.” Emi Mahmoud

“I hate that word: victim. It’s so small” - Jared Singer

“Every day, when I wake up, I find my body sleeping next to me.” Kate Hao

“I don’t know much, but I do know this: Heaven is full of music, and God listens to my heartbeat..."

“It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were geniuses for turning woman into..."

“As if there weren’t two possible results. A, I am tired and now I’m aware that I look like ***..."

“Kissing you is like a bundle of kittens colliding with my face at 0.5 miles per hour.”

“Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.” Clementine von Radics

“I start doing homework at Starbucks. I have more meaningful conversations with the barista than..."

“When we moved in together, she said that she felt safe, like no one would ever rob us because I..."

“She speaks of my grandmother, who was brought up in a time where child marriages were as regular.."

“Welcome the anxiety as a friend. Bring it with you to every social function and hold it close..."

“This is how we have learned to love. Texting each other pictures of our bodies. When we share a..."

“My body is an apartment that I can barely afford.” Dan Roman

"A girl with box springs in her throat felt the silence was too heavy for her fingertips to hold..."

"I'm a stupid, puppet version of me. I've got strings that lead to nowhere." Neil Hilborn

"With one girl, I spent so many years in the friend zone, I didn't even realize I was in it."

“‘Goodbye’ is the saddest word I know.” Sabrina Benaim

“You, woman, house a body that stay breaking, creaking men think the fragments aren’t opening..."

“When she broke your heart, did she also crack your spine so you would always fall in her..."

“Sometimes, the world will actually try to kill you. You’ll never deserve it.” Melissa Newman

“A girlfriend is an outfit that my maturity has passed down to my little cousins, years ago.”

“You are still alive. Act like it.” Rudy Francisco

“The women in my family are ***es. Cranky ***es, stuck-up ***es, customer-service-turned-sour..."

“The best part of having superpowers is that most of the time other people do not even know that

“I will not be cut into pieces anymore.” Brenna Twohy

“This is the part of the story when everyone is telling you to run.” Brenna Twohy

"I swore the next time he came into my bedroom uninvited, he would come out bleeding" Brenna Twohy

“I say, ‘I am sick.’ They say, ‘No, you are an inspiration.’” Blythe Baird

“It is the dilemma of the woman who wishes to inform the sexist, politely.” Blythe Baird

“Male kindness is so alien to us we assume it is seduction every time.” Blythe Baird

I have never felt so at ease as I did the day you called me (blue) Bianca Phipps