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1 " White Feminism (noun):1. A racism that claimsit is at least betterthan no feminism at all,like at least Hitlerwas a vegetarian,like we could actuallyget comfortablebeing the uneaten animalin the lap of a manmaking lampshadesout of human skin. "
― Andrea Gibson , Lord of the Butterflies
2 " It isn't that you don't like boys.It's that you only like boys you want to be "
3 " My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world. "
4 " I sufferfrom unrequited self love.I love myself, but I don’tLove myselfback. "
5 " When all the good in you starts arguing with all the bad in youabout who you really are, never let the bad in youmake the better case. "
6 " Let's hyperventilate like it's 1999. "
7 " There will be music for youone day. "
8 " Do you know science just proved an atom can exist in two places at the same time? No one is ever only at the scene of their crimes. Each of us is always also somewhere holy. "
9 " So at 12:31pm, when he decided not to-when he came down, when the road opened-I did, too, my whole world, my whole mindwent home with living proofof what I'd only before known in theory:that we are truly not alone in this,that our veins are absolutely stringstied to other people's kites,that our lives are connected.That my butterflies are never gone,they're just flying around in someone else's belly sometimes'. "
10 " you don't lose a personlike a set of keys because you don't find them againand you can still get to where you're going. "
11 " Come tender as the treesforgiving the booksfor asking to be made. "
12 " The closest I might ever come to war is the turning of my head. Apathy is intimate, like singing a lullaby to a grenade, then drinking yourself to sleep while it sneaks out the window to explode a boy. "
13 " Come love, make me better than I was.Come teach me a kinder wayto say my own name. "
14 " Your life each time airport security screams, Pink or blue? Pink or blue? trying to figure out which machine setting to run you through. Choosing your life and how that made you into someone who now finds it easy to explain your gender by saying you are happiest on the road, when you’re not here or there, but in-between, that yellow line coming down the center of it all like a goddamn sunbeam. "
15 " I feel that sometimes when I’m writing poems—like they don’t yet fit. Do you ever feel like the best of you is something you’re still hoping to grow into? "
16 " I know you take issue with me comparing Trump to Hitler. One, a failed painter who blamed the Jewish people for the beauty his heart was too ugly to make. The other, a con artist with enough failed humanity to eye our dying planet and focus on Miss America’s weight. "
17 " Maybe it's coming out of the closet with all of it, knowing even when the truth isn't hopeful the telling of it is. "
18 " I know this / is our first date / and that’s a lot / to share over nachos, / but I’d ideally tell you everything about me, / preferably before dessert. "
19 " Mary Levine calls you a dykeand you don't have the words to tell her she's wrongand right. You just show up to her housepromising to paint your fingernails redwith what will gush from her busted faceif she ever says it again. "
20 " Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love. "
