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“when it is but it ain't Some of us love badly. Sometimes the love is the type of love that implodes. Folds in on itself. Eats its insides. Turns wine to poison. Behaves poorly in restaurants. Drinks. Kisses other people. Comes back to your bed at 4am smelling like everything outside. Asks about your ex. Is jealous of your ex. Thinks everyone a rival. Some of us love others badly, love ourselves worse. Some of us love horrid, love beastly. Love sick love anti light. Sometimes the love can’t go home at night, can’t sleep with itself, cannot contain itself, catches fire, destroys the stomach, strips buildings, goes missing. Punches. Smashes heirlooms. Tells lies. The best lies. F*s around. Writes poems, impresses people. Chases lovers into corners. Leaves them longing. Sea sick. Says yes. Means anything but. Tricks the body. Kills the body. Dances wild and walks away, smiling.”

Pain Growth Grief Heartbreak Independence Memory Resilience Self Worth Lost Love Unrequited Love

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild.”

Home Messy Single

Book:bone

Source: bone

“You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.”

Beauty Sexism Womanhood

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.”

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.”

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.”

Love Loss Leaving

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“Women who were brought up devout and fearful get stirred, like anyone else. Want men. Want other women. Stink under the arms at the end of the day. Get that all too familiar mix of fear and discontent in the night. Want to do the things that they Must Not Do. Those dirty, bloody attractive things.”

Religious Devout Confusion Self Discovery Devoutness

Book:bone

Source: bone

“We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth.”

Book:The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Source: The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir