Image: Baljit Singh, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 quotes
Canadian poet
“do not bother holding ontothat thing that does not want you-you cannot make it stay”
"i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut"
on Relationships
"remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again"
"I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference"
"my godis not as unreachable asthey'd like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely"
on Faith
"for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere"
on Love
"i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away"
on Strength
"I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you"
"a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility"
on Life
"when you are brokenand he has left youdo not questionwhether you wereenoughthe problem wasyou were so enoughhe was not able to carry it"
"you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves"
"he saysi am sorry i am not an easy person to wanti look at him surprisedwho said i wanted easyi don’t crave easyi crave goddamn difficult"
"despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers"
"i thank the universe for takingeverything it has takenand giving to meeverything it is giving-balance"
"do not look for healingat the feet of thosewho broke you"
"accept that you deserve more than painful love life is moving the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it"
"you look at me and cryeverything hurtsi hold you and whisperbut everything can heal"
"the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you"
on Resilience
"how you love yourself ishow you teach othersto love you"
"fallin lovewith your solitude"
"people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself"
