Rico > Rico's Quotes

“People will try to make you feel good by saying everyone is beautiful, but what they really mean is written into all those empty beauty campaigns where they only ever show people who still fit the standard or are just a tiny bit deviant from it— just enough to still be acceptable. Maybe they’ve got body hair, but it’s only some peach fuzz and a bit of stubble under their arms. Maybe they’re plus-sized, but they still have the correct chest-to-waist-to-hips ratio. Maybe they’re going makeup-free, but their skin only has a few small imperfections to begin with. Then everybody pats themselves on the back because they’re so inclusive, wow, everyone is beautiful.”
― Jesmeen Kaur Deo, TJ Powar Has Something to Prove

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Fear makes people stupid,”
― Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

“Facts are not always facts. The version of the truth we know is what is shown to us.”
― Olivia A. Cole, A Conspiracy of Stars

“There should be a special word
for the kind of heartbreak
that comes not from a lover
but from a friend."
-Alicia”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“Poems are like underwear.
Sometimes you want people to see them.
Sometimes they're uncomfortable.
Sometimes they're dirty, sometimes they're full of blood."
-Alicia”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“She wouldn't care, says his friend.
All she cares about is her fucking piano

And I don't know who they're taling about
or who this piano-loving person is

but I think I agree with the dude:
some people are so focused
on the things that are important to them
that your wounds are insignificant.

Maybe it doesn't mean that they're evil,
but it doesn't mean you're not bleeding.”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“to have men
in your life
who know
that the battle
we face against
men who are
wolves can only
be won
with the help
of men
who are not.”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“Sometimes I'm torn about eyes
because there are times when I'm
riding the bus
walking to class
shopping with my mom,

when I look up to find
eyes on my body,
hungry stare, sometimes someone
my age and sometimes
not, a stare that turns me
into a meal.

And sometimes I like the way it feels
like someone has lit a torch
in my stomach in the deepest night
and all the moths come seeking.

Is it possible
to like something sometimes
and hate it other times?

Am I allowed
to decide when
I want to be
a feast?”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“I remember the thing
that I saw on Tumblr,
how people with trauma
will sometimes reexpose
themselves to it,
salt in the wound
to stay alive.

I am tired
of salting the wound -
I am ready
to salt the earth.”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“My hair is the color of a dart frog:
generations of death adapting
into this exact shade of poison

...bright red and orange,
the colors of pain,
I WILL MAKE YOU SICK
I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR THROAT

ATTENTION!
I MAY LOOK LIKE PREY
BUT I WILL END
YOUR
LIFE”
― Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa

“This mess, it’s on me. I’m the victim and the perpetrator of this story. I wish this wasn’t the case. This mess is forcing me to deal with parts of myself I didn’t even know existed.”
― Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain