Does It Hurt?

by H.D. Carlton

“People don’t actually care about fixing you. They just want to shape your broken pieces until they fit their standards. Smooth ’em out, make ’em less sharp, so they don’t cut so deep when they collect ’em. But you ain’t any less broken.”

“Nuns are, like, super trustworthy. Not priests, though. Stay away from them.”

You’re so much more than the people who have hurt you.”

I would take the worst of him if it meant I never had to go without him.

“If worshiping you is what you ask, I’d be happy to spend the rest of my life on my knees,”

“Show me where you hurt so I know where to love you most.”

You should be proud of yourself. You made me want to live.”