Act my age?
What the fuck is that, “act my age”?
What do I care how old I am?
The Ocean is old as fuck.
It will still drown your ass with vigor.

  Stimie  
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

  Sylvia Plath   

I may seem like an asshole

but deep down I’m a good person

and even deeper down I’m a bigger asshole

You silly little girl, you think you’ve survived so long that survival shouldn’t hurt anymore. You keep trying to turn your body bullet proof. You keep trying to turn your heart bomb shelter. You silly thing. You are soft and alive. You bruise and heal. Cherish it. It is what you are born to do.

And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  Warsan Shire, For Women Who Are Difficult To Love
  
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  Josephine Hart  
I kissed him passionately, I even wanted to bruise him, so that he would not be able to forget me.

  Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse   
I am not a woman. I am an inferno, I am a tempest. I am venom and fangs and claws. I am lightning and starlight, and I am hell in high heels.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

  Nikos Kazantzakis   
It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

  Charles Bukowski   
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