- To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones. - Ocean Vuong
- It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had the right to be here. - James Baldwin
- What part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in the world this year? But most importantly: what have you found to be unkillable? - Arabelle Sicardi
- Hope is the small hole cut into the honest machinery. [...] If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to a grave. - Hanif Abdurraqib
- You will not recognize me. This time, I put my pieces back differently. - Malia Makana
- Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget. - E.E Scott
- Look, we are not unspectacular things. We've come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder? - Ada Limon
- You have survived so much that no-one remembers. And you still spread warm rain on all your overgrown lots. And you still get dressed in the morning. You still open wide for the sun. - Jacqui Jermaine
- Just don't touch me, not yet, or not here. Something inside feels broken, a number that can no longer be dialed. I have desired so many times and so many things, by some law of no return. But I trust I will live in my skin again, if life is sweet and long. - Maggie Nelson
- I am the thing born on the floor of the slaughterhouse. I have a different sort of backbone than the girls who did not grow up surrounded by slit throats and sometimes it betrays me. - Adira Bennett
- It ends or it doesn't. That's what you say. That's how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don't ever come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn't. It ends or it doesn't. We do not perish. - Caitlyn Siehl
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