Biting Thorns Off Roses Quotes

“If there is only one thing to do well in this life,
It is to love well;
For if there is anything you are to be judged by
It is the plainness, of your loving.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“Trauma separates

And there is a shame that follows; one I did not see coming
Listeners mean well but they never say the right things

...and it hurts to hear the wrong things.

Our world lacks an effective empathetic vocabulary;

I hope with my whole heart
we can change that.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“What does love dictate
That we owe?”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“You see an unmade bed

Dirty dishes in the sink and laundry strewn across the floor;
I see mountains of indecision

Do you know what you want?

And have you sat alone in the dark just to see what comes up?

I wonder if you’ve felt how fulfillment feels, and if so
Could you maybe share it with me?

Not so I could steal it, or any silly thing like that
But so I, too, can know what the world is supposed to feel like






























Maybe then I’d finally find the energy to do things

Like making beds and washing dishes and folding laundry.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“Isn’t it a funny feeling; guilt
And the things we feel it for

I’m not sure which is harder; being unloved
Or being taught love is what it isn’t

But both leave you robbed

And angry.

“
It took me two decades to understand,
You never knew how;
Yours came with strings of compliance attached

And obligatory love is a piss poor excuse for it.

“
I left, I left
And still the guilt came;

That unwanted visitor, who refuses to leave.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“If Anger could speak, it would beg to be seen
It would scream and scream until it’s throat gave out—

“Fight for my life!”;

I was a burdened child
And not much about that has changed.

If Grief had a voice
It would sound like a little girl,
Carrying the weight of a life held too close to her bones;

Of love like coffee stained teeth.


The lives we have lived deserve proper funerals
But the putting to rest;

That, my dear friend, is the beast.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses

“Maybe hope is the only thing we can lean into, in the face of complete hopelessness;

Maybe hope, is our human superpower.”
― Megan E. Hoffman, Biting Thorns Off Roses