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Self expression is a tricky thing. Just as you start to feel comfortable with yourself after years of not, you then have to justify yourself to other people.

If you are afraid to write it, that's a good sign. I suppose you know when you're writing the truth when you're terrified.

If I’m entirely honest, and you say I must be I want to stay with you all afternoon evening, night and tomorrow pressed into you so tightly that we don’t know whose belly made what sound, whose heart it is that is thumping like that until I don’t know if the sweat on my chest is yours or mine or ours.

The pastor makes twenty-four references to hell in the sermon at church and forgets to talk about love.

and anyway, there will always be your breath which, hard as you try, you cant do without you cant run away from. There will always your heart beating stronger and louder the harder, the further you run.

Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing.

Maybe your life will work. Most likely it won't at first but that will give you poetry.

You are a beautiful danger. Do not force me to open up. Some books are bound tightly for years for reasons.

When the blood in your body is weary to flow, when your bones are heavy though hollow if you have made it past thirty celebrate and if you haven't yet, rejoice. Know that there is a time coming in your life when dirt settles and the patterns forma picture.

It's never too late to be wise. See how your spirit has been fermenting.

The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He

Remember on the right night and under the right light any idea can seem like a good one and love love is mostly ill advised but always brave.

Do not go too far for peace and quiet do not run too far because the country can be as loud as the city too noisy in its stillness and anyway, there will always be your breath which, hard as you try, you cant do without you cant run away from. There will always be your heart beating stronger and louder the harder, the further you run.

It is love. But I will not stay. My father was a long dark fairytale too.

You are one of life's anomalies and this is how I fell.

You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

Just because you do it doesn’t mean you always will.

See, nobody warns you about yourself. The red in your eye. The trap in your mouth. The person who hurts you the most in the end will be you. Almost every time, you. You'd better learn to forgive yourself. Forgive yourself instantly. It's a skill you're going to need until you die.

what is now will soon be past Just because you do it doesn’t mean you always will. Whether you’re dancing dust or breathing light you’re never exactly the same, twice.

See, they never held you back. It was you, only you.

intro I am the tall dark stranger those warnings prepared you for.

plus there is that feeling you get when you catch up with yourself.

The most important thing to do is not to worry. The lines on your face will never stop the sun from coming up. Your tears cannot affect the weather.

Before you are dismantled, fixed and broke again you are not yet a lover.

Thank Goodness I have nearly unlearned folding my desire into itself being afraid to claim it.

Truth is a beauty, whether pretty or not. Love doesn't always mean you should stay. Sometimes the truth has to punch you, twice. Love doesn't always mean you should stay.

There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I

something about the way black women hold your heart. You can leave them all you like but you can’t stay gone.

Thank heavens you’re resetting ever setting and resetting.

You’re a lost thing.