Audre Lorde, From The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Power”

When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.

“If anyone had opened his arms to me, I would have wept like a child.”

— Albert Camus, Death in the Soul

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

— Jack Kerouac

anyone else feel like theyre on the verge of insanity in an undescribable way

Being median is funny. I'm not a singlet and not multiple, but a secret third thing. Who am I? Depends on the day but when it comes down to it, I'm me. Who's that? Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy. I'm people soup. A coin with two sides, but still a coin.

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

My whole life someone told me to be a weapon, when all I wanted was to weep.

— Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal, from “Black Fire Ballad (I Feel Most Evil in My Mother’s Gowns),” Teen Titans, Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom

not mad just outside your house with a gun

Giuseppe Ungaretti, from a poem titled "Christmas," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry