Amanda Lovelace Quotes & Sayings

it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.

It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.

that
was my
first act
of
self-love. — Amanda Lovelace

i'm sorry
if i
wasn't
the daughter
you had
in mind
-i only ever wanted to make you proud- — Amanda Lovelace

you have
been the
star
of each
every
one of
my
nightmares.

"- you left but you stayed. — Amanda Lovelace

i'm pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. - women are some kind of magic. — Amanda Lovelace

The pain did not make me a better person. It did not teach me not to take anything for granted. It did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone. — Amanda Lovelace

when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives - a bookmad girl never dies. — Amanda Lovelace

if you
don't want to
end up in
someone else's
poem,
then maybe
you should
start
treating
people
better
for
a
change.

- an unapologetic poet. — Amanda Lovelace

all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.

-Startling Fact #1 — Amanda Lovelace

can't i just be a paper girl with a paper life? — Amanda Lovelace

repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself. — Amanda Lovelace

i used to think
i was broken

because
i never once

spent my
daydreams

plucking
swollen pomegranates

from
someone else's tree.

- then i learned that society is broken, not me. — Amanda Lovelace

i had a
big smile
on my face
as i burned
the bridges
to all the things
i could not
repair

-does the smoke still choke you? — Amanda Lovelace

What happens when your dreams are nightmares stuck on repeatrepeatrepeat? — Amanda Lovelace

i'm not scared
of the monsters

hidden underneath
my bed.

i'm much more scared
of the boys

with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,

& mouths
that only know

how to form
half-truths. — Amanda Lovelace

You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together. — Amanda Lovelace

He loves me
he loves me not
He loves her
He loves her not
He loves me
He loves me not
-I ran out of petals — Amanda Lovelace

ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales. — Amanda Lovelace

i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you. - still hoping for sugar instead of salt. — Amanda Lovelace

she
was the
pagebound
girl.

-page to skin. — Amanda Lovelace

i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar

-an ode to me — Amanda Lovelace

just because they don't hit you doesn't mean it isn't abuse. wouldn't you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse. — Amanda Lovelace

the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings. — Amanda Lovelace

birds
can't
fly away
when you
clip
one of
their wings.

you
weren't
satisfied
with just
clipping
one of
my wings.

you tore
both
out from
the root
to make sure
i could
never fly
anywhere
ever
again.
- mother & daughter — Amanda Lovelace

when
he left,
he
packed up
all my
poetry
took it
with
him. — Amanda Lovelace

at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterwards, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze - disappear. i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up the "cat scratches." - everybody told me how good i looked, though. — Amanda Lovelace

fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.

- a mermaid escapist II. — Amanda Lovelace

i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II — Amanda Lovelace

grief clung to her like an old, itchy, faded, ill-fitting, hand-me-down dress. — Amanda Lovelace

you will think
your parents are
shatterproof

until one day
you find out
they aren't.

- what it really means to lose your innocence — Amanda Lovelace

the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.

- period, end of story. — Amanda Lovelace

you
are not
obligated
to have
children
just because
your body
has that capability.

you
are so
so
so
much more
than the
possibility
of
children.

you give
birth
to oceans
every
single day.

-your friendly neighborhood man-hater & child-eater. — Amanda Lovelace

if a house
does not
automatically
make a home,
then a body
doesn't
automatically
make a home
either.

-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin. — Amanda Lovelace

a bookmad girl never dies. — Amanda Lovelace

he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here. - i thank the universe every day for you. — Amanda Lovelace

when you're taught to see the world through fire, nothing looks safe. — Amanda Lovelace

When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract. — Amanda Lovelace

it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
sometimes
a bit of both. — Amanda Lovelace

There
was never
enough alcohol
to keep my mother warm
in a house
as cold as
t h i s.

- but you kept trying, didn't you? — Amanda Lovelace

where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?

"- did it really happen if i can't remember it? — Amanda Lovelace

raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts. — Amanda Lovelace

the doctor
hesitated
before
breaking the news
to her.

"those aren't
stars.

it's cancer."

- forty years a smoker — Amanda Lovelace

Sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. - — Amanda Lovelace

your death certificate makes the claim that you died on november 3rd at 3:03 AM. that is a lie. you died long before that. - 3 isn't my lucky number anymore. — Amanda Lovelace

if
love
is a
battlefield,
then i
must have
forgotten
all of
my armor
at home.

-a war i never agreed to fight — Amanda Lovelace

Somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever had the chance to meet. — Amanda Lovelace

make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d — Amanda Lovelace

i
let myself
know
that my life
doesn't
have to be over
just because
theirs are
& i went
ahead
& painted
the sun
back into
my sky.
I am allowed to live my life. — Amanda Lovelace

be wary
of the boys who
only ever tell
half-thruths
because they
will only ever be
half in love
with you

-slay those dragons — Amanda Lovelace

once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. How's that for a happily ever after? — Amanda Lovelace

death wound itself around her bones like a piece of red ribbon. — Amanda Lovelace

your happiness
comes before

anyone else's
happiness

-the real meaning of "self-respect. — Amanda Lovelace

blood blooming underneath the stinging bite of steel. II. — Amanda Lovelace

the love
some girls
have for
other girls
is
so gentle
so soft
so fucking
beautiful,
these girls
deserve
to have
better stories
than the ones
where they
are murdered
because they love
with too much
of their
hearts.

-love is never a weakness. — Amanda Lovelace

i have to
believe
the day
will come
where i don't
flinch
whenever
i hear
his name.

- some names will always be cursed. — Amanda Lovelace

I was the one thing
he had to deny--
the beautiful truth
within his
terrible lie.
-who knew such a young heart could shatter? — Amanda Lovelace

if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word "no" & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. - "no" is short for "fuck off." — Amanda Lovelace

i have
so much love
to give,
but no one
ever wants
it.

- a cup overfilled. — Amanda Lovelace

the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn't realize i could be my own knight. — Amanda Lovelace

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

a
world
where all

human beings
are taken care of

shouldn't be called

a "revolutionary"
way of life

yet
it is.

-burn — Amanda Lovelace

is death our only feather-covered hope? - — Amanda Lovelace

my boy?
he is even
better than
books.
-fiction has nothing on you. — Amanda Lovelace

friend request from ........."
a) the girl who said you were ugly.
b) the girl who said your voice was off-key.
c) the girl who refused to defend you.
d) the girl who laughed at you behind your back and to your face.
e) the girl who took your lunch money every day because she said you didn't need to eat.
f) the girl who said you were "fat" even after you starved yourself to death.
g) the girl who was supposed to be your best friend.
h) all the above.
-keep pressing ignore, lovely. — Amanda Lovelace

silence has always been my loudest scream. — Amanda Lovelace

he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.

-my personal pen and paper — Amanda Lovelace

blood runs wherever his fingertips graze me. - — Amanda Lovelace

revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey — Amanda Lovelace

you were in love with the idea of love, not me. — Amanda Lovelace