Цитаты из книги the witch doesn't burn in this one

women are libraries about to burst

i don’t need you to write my story. i write it e v e r y d a y & you couldn’t even translate the fucking punctuation.

& they have never fully forgiven us for claiming the portion of the sky that was always rightfully ours.

i hold my tongue out of fear so often that blood has made a permanent home in the spaces between my teeth.

• this is what womanhood tastes like.

red lipstick:
an external sign
of internal
fire.
- we tried to warn you.

the
only time
i know
what
being safe
feels like
is
when
i’m in
a room
overflowing
with light
& the laughter
of women

haven’t you
ever wished
you could
dance
in the ashes
of everyone who
ever doubted
your worth
& scoffed at
your words?

for the girl on fire.
thank you for inspiring me to
gently set the world alight.
you may have
a gown of flames,
but those same flames
run through my
veins.

no matter what they tell you, it is not your job to be polite to anyone who is not polite to you first.

• get up, you are nobody’s doormat.

write the poem. (write the pain) burn the poem. (burn the pain)

• blow the ashes in their eyes.

i will be that voice that tells you to cover your arms with flower petals instead.

• your winter will come to an end.

but what if the devil is just a woman who was banished to hell to stoke the flames as punishment for standing up to him?

• lilith.

they will try to steal your light & use it as a weapon against you. but there’s a piece of good news: they don’t have the patience to control it like you do. “you have no reason to be afraid,” the match-boys tell us right before they throw fistfuls & fistfuls of matches. “don’t be so fucking dramatic,” the match-boys tell us as our skin drips into the dirt. “you’re always overreacting,” the match-boys tell the reflections in the puddles they made.

• they only wish this is how it happened.

eat. fill yourself with energy, with sunlight. treat your body to tenderness & lavender.

• we need you here & whole.

why yes, i am the girl with the arsonist heart all your fathers warned you about & once one tree catches, it’s not long before the whole forest lights up.

• yet i never seem to care who gets hurt.

tell me something, would you? haven’t you ever wished you could dance in the ashes of everyone who ever doubted your worth & scoffed at your words? (shhh, it’s okay. i won’t tell.)

& she begins to wonder if kisses have calories & how long they would take to burn. - the hollow-girl II

she's so scared to take up space that even the weight of her bones sometimes feels like too much.

-the hollow-girl