Emily Palermo Quotes & Sayings

Despite what you've read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you.
Stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare,
for an end to your sadness in Keats.
He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived.
Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world.
Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.
Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor. — Emily Palermo

And Death, in his shame,
built a kingdom from dust
as penance, as proof,
that his fingers were made
for more than destruction. — Emily Palermo

But you see, there is
a graveyard in my mouth
filled with words that
have died on my lips. — Emily Palermo

I want to be a mystery to you,
untouchable,
a star all to myself
a galaxy away from your starved fingers. — Emily Palermo