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01Undated

i’m going to love again so quietlyno one will know i’m home.

stephanie roberts / quote

02Undated

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

stephanie roberts / quote

03Undated

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

stephanie roberts / quote

04Undated

Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

stephanie roberts / quote

05Undated

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

stephanie roberts / quote

06Undated

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

stephanie roberts / quote

07Undated

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

stephanie roberts / quote