Naked Quotes

“Rest is necessary because life requires work.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“It sucks to starve yourself for years and never have your body get skinny enough for people to let you not starve yourself anymore.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Learning how to mother was like purchasing a $2 puzzle from the thrift shop… no idea if all the pieces were included.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“When people let you down young in life, you develop hyper-independence, meaning you struggle to ask for help.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“You will die with an incomplete to-do list. Please, just accept that.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“The earth is rising to meet my feet.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“There’s always been two of me. There’s this broken-me totally happy to live in the suck and knotty+dark. Then there’s this future-me, and she’s always been within me. She is bright and solid and the woman I always knew I’d grow to be. The woman I knew I’d become. She’s been slowly gaining ground throughout my entire life.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Our energy was the space between our words. Our energy was the breath between our stories. Our energy was the first rays of spring’s sun on my skin. It was feeling his sunshine on my soul. It was feeling his eyes go through to the part of me that has never changed. It was feeling emotionally naked in the loveliest of ways, in the space in between.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Love is unconditional. Treatment is conditional.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“When asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
No little girl looks up with sparkly big eyes full of big dreams and says, “A saleswoman!”
― S.D.G., Naked

“With my head against his chest, as breath entered his body, I remembered that I was breathing too. How long had it been since I’d taken a deep breath?”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Bitter+Empathy:
The emotional realization that someone never meant to hurt you, that they were just careless assholes wandering through life looking down at their phone while crossing roads (like fucking idiots). And you were just something inconsequential to them, like a single sentence, while the pain they inflicted upon you was a whole chapter.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Relief+Grief:
The intense pain that someone, something, or an idea is gone forever, mixed with sweet relief that you also no longer have that problem or issue in your life anymore.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Why do we send flowers when people die? It’s a reminder of beauty, fleeting beauty. This is death. I will appreciate the joy of their life when I am not awash in the horrible darkness. When I am not awash in the moments of leaking, of sobbing, of numbness. When I am not awash in practical issues like ashes, caskets, and bills.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“The moment stasis is achieved in my life, it begins to shift. Biologically speaking, stasis is death.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Why do we resent change so much? Simple answer: we feel like we are being forced instead of being guided.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Change ensures you get options to decide the direction of your life.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Productivity has become a social wound. Pay attention for one day to how most conversations revolve around being busy or not having enough hours in the day.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“I discovered that sometimes the best way to stop my brain from seeking an answer is to tell it I am missing part of the equation.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“The hardest thing in life is deciding when to stay and when to go. To stay, to go. It’s basically, in some situations, a coin toss or a feeling one afternoon in the gut.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“I want to feel your
Sweet, tentative kiss
A respectful kiss
I want to feel that
Breakover moment
Where the kiss morphs
Into readiness”
― S.D.G., Naked

“There is an art to love. Love, when done right, involves loving what another hates about themselves.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Love should not be one-sided. Love is not unrequited love; that is lusting after something.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“True fascination is an interest so deep that it changes you.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Confidence is rooted in uniqueness. Trust your inherent uniqueness and confidence will fall into place.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Just the act of free-flow writing quieted my brain. It took the big ball of yarn and tangles, and somehow, a little corner of it began revealing order.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Honor the mini-humans. They are full humans. They deserve as much respect as adults.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“My body is the one steady thing I have in this life. I have raged at my body. I have ignored my body. I have reviled my body. I started calling her 'she' and treating her like part of me, not just calling her my body.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Every time I used my darkness to help someone with their own, the sharpness of my own pain dulled, and the world felt better.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“One finally realizes that life is a scale. On on side, everything society tells you that you need to be happy. On the other side: the true nature of life.”
― S.D.G., Naked