To Make Monsters Out of Girls

by Amanda Lovelace

the apologies came so frequently it was exhausting for both of us & eventually you didn’t bother offering one at all.

love does not need to be tragic in order for it to be good. the truth is that i would much rather stir to the feeling of his lips meeting my forehead at 5:30 a.m. every morning for the next eighty odd years than settle for living an eternity alongside someone who can’t even be sure where he left his promises the night before. - fuck those fairy tales.

sometimes the person they swear they’ll never turn into is the person who’s always been standing before you. - the perfectly woven lie.

don’t trust anyone with a cross hanging from their neck & hate buried inside their chest. - take it from me.

there will be instances where you are the toxic one— where you will need to step back, apologize, & reflect. i know; i’ve been the one. but even still, that fact doesn’t excuse their abuse. - false equivalences.