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21 " i am best prepared for the worst case scenario. the best case scenario scares me. flight response. my mother tells me i am a bird. when she says i am a bird, she means the whole world is my cage. "
― Sabrina Benaim , Depression & Other Magic Tricks
22 " & my heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself. "
23 " i forgive myself even if i am the last person i want to forgive. whatever i have come from/wherever i am going. "
24 " i miss you, but i don't wish you were here "
― Sabrina Benaim
25 " i tell my grandmotheri think love isa hungry caterpillari am no mealhistoricallyi have never been morethan a midnight snack "
26 " I do not use her signature trick of turning her heart inside out,the way she showed me, to wear her softness as a bullet proof vest.Armor is for women who have something to lose "
27 " in my story, i am the protagonist & the bad thing, i have to learn how to bend the light out of myself. "
28 " i only doused myself in gasoline when you handed me that match because i was tired of being a metaphor. why is it always about burning? "
29 " the girl is now a girl who is also a whale; full of unoccupied space.it's tragic how she displaces her emptiness with loneliness,how she wants & wants & wants & needs to know why. "
30 " how do I teach my mouth to shake out the reflection of your etch-a-sketch smile? "
31 " the truth hurts loudest when you toss it around, & the echo...the echo is what drives girls like me mad with remembering. "
32 " my heart is a messy bedroom i always distract myself from cleaning.(...)when i say my feelings are a box of chocolates, i mean i like to eat them. "
33 " my mother the sparrowmy mother the nestmy mother the branchesmy mother the leavesmy mother the tree who cut and whittled herself to build me a boat offering safe passagemy eyes watch our slow sailing reflection in the waterin its stillness, it's almost impossible to tellif the tiny yellow lights scattered across its surface aremirrored stars or crocodile eyes "
34 " my mother tells me i am a bird. when she says i am a bird, she means the whole world is my cage. "
35 " we hugged.it was a good hug.if there is such a thing as a hug so good i did not wish it were a kiss. "
36 " what they don't tell you about self-care, that it can make you feel like you are the coach, the captain, & every.other.player. oh, & the mascot. it can make you feel especially like the mascot. "
37 " how to turn the anger into lonely,the lonely into busy. "
38 " whatif i am the sound the tree makeswhen it falls in the forest & noone is around / but i think it’s morelikely that i am the no one "
39 " The only thing we think we know for sure is the pastBut our memories are stories we tell ourselves to sleep at night "
― Sabrina Benaim , I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems
40 " once, there was a lump in my throat. i like to believe it was a metaphor. every feeling i have swallowed. a plain tumour is all it was. "