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“I wasn’t always this ugly / it’s just the world on my body”
— Sara Borjas, from “No, I wasn’t always this ugly,” published in Calamity
“you have to burn the house of your trauma to the ground.”
— mud howard, from “ghoul,” published in Blue Mesa Review
“We have not long to love. / Light does not stay. / The tender things are those / we fold away.”
— Tennesse Williams, from We Have Not Long to Love
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“Don’t be the reason someone feels insecure. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard and supported.”
— Cleo Wade
“…this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain,”
— Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays; On Being Ill.
