shit sucks, man.

Rei. Writing blog is @victimsofvodka.

[buttonpoetry]

“Trauma sends you letters, without warning, for the rest of your life, usually disguised as something else.”

— Brenna Twohy, from Swallowtail 

[buttonpoetry]

“How you do it, girl? How you wake up with a smile on as big as the sun when you were up crying all night before?”

— Joan Leslie - “More Black Girl than Magic”

[buttonpoetry]

“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”

— Andrea Gibson, "Diagnosis"

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.”

— Robert Tew

[what-strange-lives-we-live]

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”

— Nikita Gill, Girls Made of Fire

[bostonpoetryslam]

“When you cry you are saying I love you to yourself bur there is history. There is time.”

— Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, “You Are A Tree In Yourself,” from There Should Be Flowers

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette.”

— Victoria Erickson

[buttonpoetry]

“Our fathers’ fists: one-liners we still know by heart.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, “B on Elm Street Behind the Fairgrounds, 199” 

[buttonpoetry]

“I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments.”

— Rudy Francisco, "Horizon”

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you.”

— Unknown

[buttonpoetry]

“We know the Pythagorean theorem by heart, but short-circuit when anyone asks us, ‘How are you?’ We don’t know. We don’t know. That wasn’t on the study guide.”

— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak

[juansendizon]

“There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive.”

— Juansen Dizon

[myshortnotes]

“I hope you know you’re capable, and brave, and significant, even when it feels like you’re not.”

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[ifnooneknowsyourealiveyouarent]

“I know, I do, that I feel this way now and will not feel this way soon. I know that the aphorisms, even if I hate them, are right. This too shall pass.”

Neil Hilborn, I don’t Need to Have a Better Day, I Need to Feel Better About This One

[memoriesrecollected]

“And now I write about beautiful things like I will never touch a beautiful thing again”

— Hanif Abdurraqib - “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[memoriesrecollected]

“Find your identity in more than just your suffering”

— Alysia Harris - “No Poems Inside the Victorian House”

[everything-that-helps-you-sleep]

“Writing a list of ways I could be better and writing a suicide note are the same thing.”

Sierra DeMulder