miscellaneous quotes writing prompts pt. i.
“ i am angry because of my father. “
“ i wanted to get it right so badly that i always got it wrong. “
“ they gave me a name and alienated me from myself. “
“ i want to tell me i miss me. i want to tell me, i’m never coming back. “
“ i’m a negative of a person. “
“ you still think that i would never leave you. “
“ the world is not ready for me, yet here i am. “
“ you are the hero. you get a hero’s end. “
“ i talk to god, but the sky is empty. “
“ a burnt child loves the fire. “
“ still, there is this terrible desire to be loved. still, there is this horror at being left behind. “
“ i lived as a monster, my only hope is to die like a child. “
“ maybe i should have wanted less. “
“ don’t mistake my charity for what it is. “
“ the enormity of my desire disgusts me. “
“ i wanted to be loved so desperately that my fingers shook with it. “
“ i am not beautiful, but i could be. “
“ because you want to die for you. you always have. “
“ hunted girls grow shells and they call us hard women. as if survival could ever be delicate. “
“ there’s no telling how long you’ll be paying. “
“ there is love in my the likes of which you’ve never seen. “
“ there is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. “
“ here is the truth: i keep waiting for my anger to go dormant, but it won’t. “
“ i am sick of myself trying to give shape to all this sorrow, all this rage, all this loss—and failing. “
“ the dead past that survives in me and that has never been anywhere but in me. “
“ the past beats inside me like a second heart. “
“ i’m so scared of being alone. “
“ i was raised up to be admired, to be noticed. when you’re withdrawn, it’s the closest thing to assault when all eyes are on you. “
“ i feel like an empty class with a small crack in the bottom, as if every attempt to fill myself up would never, ever work. “
“ how long can you keep wanting something and not ask for it? “
“ if i can’t find love, if i can’t find peace, give me a bitter glory. “
“ there are no bargains between lions and me. i will kill you and eat you raw. “
“ be a caution. be a reckoning. be a thing that breaks before it bends. “
“ everyone i know is in some kind of pain. “
“ i want it to be my fault so i can fix it. “
“ you want to go missing, but not disappear. you want their attention, but not to be found. “
“ sometimes it feels like i didn’t even exist before that. like you invented me. “
“ tell me how you want me to be. i can be that. “
“ without you, life is entirely feasible but hateful. “
“ if i am to perish by the power of fire, at least let that fire be yours. “
“ my hands have made good mistakes. they can always make better ones. “
“ if i die because i gambled on love, then it will be a worthy death. “
“ i’m a clever girl to keep my mouth shut. “
“ tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway. “
“ my good intentions are completely lethal. “
“ if you are intolerable, then let me be the one to tolerate you. “
“ i carried my fear of the world as if it could protect me from the world. “
“ do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? “
“ i couldn’t draw my own face if god asked. “
“ desire is no light thing. “
“ you don’t have to believe me. i love you all the same. “
“ i care for you still and i will forever. that was my part of the deal. “
“ you want to be left behind. that way, no one bears witness to what you’ve become. “
“ i am the monster i warned you against. “
“ you are the monster i claim. “
“ when is a monster not a monster? when you love it. “