" love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already "
Sayfa 54 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
i want to be so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire "
Sayfa 53 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" i am learning
how to love him
by loving myself "
Sayfa 49 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" you are the faint line
between faith and
blindly waiting
- letter to my future lover "
Sayfa 46 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" no
it won’t
be love at
first sight when
we meet it’ll be love
at first remembrance cause
i’ve seen you in my mother’s eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i’d want to raise my son to be like "
Sayfa 41 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" when my mother was pregnant
with her second child i was four
i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how
my mother had gotten so big in such little time
my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and
said the closest thing to god on this earth
is a woman’s body it’s where life comes from
and to have a grown man tell me something
so powerful at such a young age
changed me to see the entire universe
rested at my mother’s feet "
Sayfa 39 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" father. you always call to say nothing in particular. you ask what i’m doing or where i am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us i scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going. what i long to say most is. i understand this world broke you. it has been so hard on your feet. i don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you. "
Sayfa 33 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" when my mother opens her mouth
to have a conversation at dinner
my father shoves the word hush
between her lips and tells her to
never speak with her mouth full
this is how the women in my family
learned to live with their mouths closed "
Sayfa 31 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" there is no bigger illusion in the world
than the idea that a woman will
bring dishonor into a home
if she tries to keep her heart
and her body safe "
Sayfa 20 - Andrews McMeel PublishingKitabı okudu
" every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you
- to fathers with daughters "
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