Цитаты из книги Melk en honing

when my mother was pregnant with her second child i was four i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how my mother had gotten so big in such little time my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and said the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman's body it's where life comes from and to have grown man tell me something so powerful at such a young age changed me to see the entire universe rested at my mother's feet

neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love

i was music but your ears cut off

you've touched me without even touching me

you are your own soul mate

our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

i’d be lying if i said you make me speechless the truth is you make my tongue so weak it forgets what language to speak in

i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty. before i’ve called them intelligent or brave. i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on i will say things like, you are resilient or, you are extraordinary. not because i don’t think you’re pretty. but because you are so much more than that