The burns didn’t hurt this badly when we were on fire.
MAGGIE BOWYERI was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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On my worst days, my brain tries to trick me into wishing I stayed. It’s really trying to convince me that I didn’t deserve to survive.
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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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You’ve retracted your rays of warmth. You’ve pulled the clouds to cover sunlight. I think everyone is growing more concerned as the days keep passing and you’re still absent.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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These words crash over and threaten to destroy me. I cannot find the stars so far beneath these waves of insecurity and mistrust, their light has seemed to vanish.
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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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I know I could be a petty queen, I could release all the receipts the way you treated me. But honey I’m happier living in peace than cruelty.
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What started as a friendly fire quickly turned into assassination. What did i do to jump to number one in your hit list?
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