"There's a place where someone loves you both before and after they learn what you are that place.."

"It used to be a lighthouse, the light inside of it has gone out and it's haunted by the ghosts..."

"The doctor sends me home with a list of ways to care for myself & haven’t I always wished for..."

"I spent long enough fixing nothing so I could feel nothing, that now it's just mistakes all the..."

"I'm 22 and newly queer; my hair is still permed." Andrea Gibson

"Silence is my first language, and lonely is an accent that I still can't get rid of."

"I’d clear the snow off of twelve driveways in negative twenty-degree weather just so I could leave"

"Someone that will hold her hand like it's the only one they've ever seen." Rudy Francisco

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

“How do I say the truth isn’t the right filter? The truth knows nothing of who you almost were.”

"The snow spreads its arms and yawns, the snow starts saying goodnight the moment it wakes."

"Why are you still in bed?" - Rudy Francisco

“But most of all, I’m sorry I believed these lies.” FreeQuency

“It feels like staring at the sun, hard; so when I look away it stays, printed in my mind..."

“A woman’s body is unapologetically powerful. She is so powerful she is often taught to be scared.."

“Your body will assume it has survived for another day, until the next trigger.” Patrick Roche

"I bet your God made Eve without a mouth and taught her how to spread her legs like a magazine..."

“You were afraid of the monster in your closet, and I was afraid it had already climbed into bed...

“But I was not raised to love everything that was the same. I was just raised to hate everything...

“Despite my best efforts, I am real.” Jamie Mortara

“Is this what inheritance feels like?” Jahman Hill

“I say Black Lives Matter, you say you don’t see color.” Natasha T. Miller

“Remember always the hipster creed: ‘Why be efficient when you could be inefficient?’” Neil Hilborn

“The first said: you must be a man, as much as you want it. Then offered a glass of water, which..."

“...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