I want you as a lemon the waiter brings on a tiny white plate. I want him to watch while I squeeze you into my mouth and swallow the rind.
CHELSIE DIANEIf your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.
More Chelsie Diane Quotes
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Hour 36 of labor. I pull at god’s necktie dig a hole at the hospital floor.
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You loved me gray sweatpants and I loved you drunk on stouts and I am velveeta mac and cheese.
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I will not believe It’s less holy to be human. I will not bow my head. I will not close my eyes to god.
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This morning I tell the kindest man on earth after two dates, you are good and you are not my man. My man is not as good as you.
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When I was six I fell on a broken window. Once I realized no one was coming I stopped screaming and pulled the shard from my middle. This is life for some of us. This has been life for me.
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When I reached for what I wanted, they said I left my needs behind. But if all birds need is on the ground why then do they fly?
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Go fuck yourself.
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You can’t go to a kindergarten teacher after me.
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Don’t get too used to being alone.
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Beautiful creature its time to forgive yourself you were surviving.
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I took the bobblehead of him off his refrigerator and kissed it.
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My entire life I’ve waited for a man to teach the world how to treat me and if he’d step in and convince them all.
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A twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.
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Everything great I’ve done I did not think to do so.
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One tornado I lived through got the house.
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