Meant to Wake Up Feeling Quotes

“When they ask you how you're doing, tell them you're working on a master's degree on breath control.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Extend a dinner invitation to the one that got away. Serve a scavenger hunt of moon shadows.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Call yourself a planet because all this space derives from punctured cells and this floatation device called gender is permitting you to wander.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“dear freud.
if I set myself on fire will you donate your prescription pad and add to the flames”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Dear god,
Every time I take my clothes off, I stop believing in you.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Everything that came before today is a rorshach'd survival stain. That is, memories are like lovers; they never really leave us.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Pasts are like bones. They grow and rip shards of internal bruising from within.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“give up on monogamy with another and begin solitary love affair with brain”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“When they need to mourn longer, collect nests and sew one big enough for them to weep in.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“When they want to know about your latest relationship, tell them the moon didn't return your phone call last night, but you are hopeful.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“If there is such a thing as the business of sadness, what is its 401K plan or how to succeed without really trying.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“collapse teeth into body as though mouth is a ballerina
plié over and over into and in”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“if breasts were detachable, would you leave them behind”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“how much am I willing to pay out of pocket for this body”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“masculinity is double-jointed and vegetarian. masculinity is sleep-deprived and well-traveled and an immigrant and a soldier”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“masculinity is aromatic and may be derived from flattening or freshly-shaved haircut. it is sexy in the way that it touches and the way that it questions and the way that it challenges who can house it.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“Call body a stoop sale. There may be a need to discount limbs. Half price on the parts no longer in use and what happens when skin forgets its cause.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“I am in-between the sentence-structure of my body”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“check other when offered choice of
female
or
male”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“You didn't even notice I scratched away my
hips and climbed skin out of my collarbone so you can hang there. Aren't you homeless. Don't you want to burrow your germs into my gender to see what mutated cells we can create?”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“For cause of disturbance to bottom half of body, see page 143.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling