Amanda Lovelace

“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker”

— Amanda Lovelace

“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. - you…

— Amanda Lovelace

“i have so much love to give, but no one ever wants it. - a cup overfilled.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“if he was my cup of tea, then you are my cup of coffee. tea simply isn’t enough for me sometimes, but…

— Amanda Lovelace

“watching the house that was my sanctuary & my hell go up in flames was bittersweet but mostly just sweet. - a confession.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“the only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one. - period, end of story.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“women don't endure simply because we can; no, women endure because we aren't given any other choice. - they wanted us weak…

— Amanda Lovelace

“you will think your parents are shatterproof until one day you find out they aren't. - what it really means to lose…

— Amanda Lovelace

“write the story. push your hands into the dirtiest parts of yourself. take the rot & decay & turn it into nourishment…

— Amanda Lovelace

“the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve…

— Amanda Lovelace

“guess what? you shine brrighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“fuck the idea / that there is / such a thing / as destiny, / that there exists / some kind of…

— Amanda Lovelace

“she once made a promise to save me when all along we should have been saving her from herself. - please come…

— Amanda Lovelace

“you were in love with the idea of love, not me.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“What happens when your dreams are nightmares stuck on repeatrepeatrepeat?”

— Amanda Lovelace

“if you ever look at your reflection & feel the desire to tell yourself you’re not good enough, beautiful enough, skinny enough,…

— Amanda Lovelace

“i used to think i was broken because i never once spent my daydreams plucking swollen pomegranates from someone else's tree. -…

— Amanda Lovelace

“your happiness comes before anyone else's happiness -the real meaning of "self-respect.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“friends can break your heart, too”

— Amanda Lovelace

“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word "no" & i…

— Amanda Lovelace

“it took losing him to finally find myself. It took losing him a second time to be sure of myself. that was…

— Amanda Lovelace

“he just wants a way to remember.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace