hummingbird Quotes

“Her soul made her honest. Her soul made her kind. It made her swerve for pedestrian ants when she rode her bicycle through the suburbs. It made her cry when she found a sparrow dead on the sidewalk. She moved it into the grass with a stick and covered it in petals. You see, our skin should do more than just protect our bones.”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“I am learning How to be my own sky. - Resurrection fern”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“I am reclaiming The restaurants, The bars, the parks, the storefronts crosshatched With your fingerprints. I fold the memories into Cranes, tuck them away. - Making room”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“You took so much so fast. You did not bother to stitch my wounds. I spread my insides on the floor, Step back and admire The awful mess you made of me. - Spread”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“When I was fifteen I got sick. No cure, only treatment. When I was sixteen I was assaulted. I used to joke that at least I got the bad stuff out of the way early, as if there was a cap on how much pain a person could endure over the course of their life. - Obviously, I had never been in love”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“If loneliness was weakness We would have Withered long ago. - The human condition”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“I love you. Come back. -He sends me a message six months later”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird

“I never planned to release any of these poems. They were simply my way of dealing with what I had lost and reminding myself of what I still had. I realized though that if I kept them under lock and key they would fester. They needed to breathe. When my words breathe, I breathe. I am still breathing. You are, too.”
― Sophia Elaine Hanson, hummingbird