“Just because I evolved, doesn’t mean I am spineless. Just because I am malleable, doesn’t mean I am undeserving” ― Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across (2018)
Tag Archives: poetry
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert – Review
I believe it was during Clockwork Reader’s bookshelf tour that I first saw Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across. I was looking for another poetry book but I’d like to say that when I was walking around at Chapters I did not bring this one home because of how beautiful the cover is for […]
Surreal
“i wonder how many women are painting themselves into movie girls while they sleep angling their faces alien to themselves, an unnecessary surrender to things that kill them, to things that are not real I tell myself in the mirror, applying the second coat of mascara: these things are not real” ― Mary Lambert, Shame Is an […]
“No one else lives in your body You are enough, as you are, today” ― Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across (2018)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – Review
I am always loosing my mom at the grocery store. When this happens, I always go for a stroll to the book section of any bookstore in hopes that she’ll think I’m there and also because I want to see what’s in stock. For some reason, grocery store books are always on some 30% deal […]
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“I am learning in peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)