“My therapist says medicine is making great strides”

“My ex noticed when I started to change my feet for another dude”

“The strangest thing about someone dying is that it isn’t strange at all.”

“Stop competing with other women, and start holding them up”

“but the dead have always served as cautions to the living”

“In middle school, I tried to have an eating disorder.”

“People who like labels have one for me: “adoptive mom,””

“I don’t want her buried, I want her burnt. But I don’t want her ashes.”

“I wish I could learn how to live with this fear”

“any child from a meth environment had been sexually abused”

“leave it up to fate, my body will do what it will”

“Literacy is one of the most powerful motors of political awareness”

“I should be cast out to sea”

“It’s about just telling someone that you’re in pain and you don’t have a good reason”

“I was a covers-pulled-up-to-my-chin, lights-off, minimize-jiggling-however-possible lover”

“ten years of things not crashing into other things without warning”

“the way the body of a mother who has lost a child trembles”

“And then I just was still. Eyes open. Done breathing.”