Her Fire Touched the Sky Quotes

“I wear my story like flame on bare skin.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“You left like Prometheus in reverse, stealing the fire and leaving me chained to silence.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Breathe. Keep on. We’ve got galaxies to set alight.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Let the villains rot.
Let the system choke.
Let ghosts hang their heads from this place they said I would never reach.

This crown wasn’t given.
It was seized through fire, flashbacks, and sharpened teeth that break handcuffs.

The crown fits my scars now.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“They tried to make me a fable.
I rewrote myself into pyre.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I am not calm. I am not done.
Ask again, and I will show you what it costs to make silence kneel.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I summon the girl who jumps at every shadow.
I summon the breath that never came whole.
I summon the ache buried in clothes that smiled.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul