Michelle Tea Quotes

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.