Magic with Skin On Quotes

“Even now, she cannot stop searching for a way out of her skin and into a life that fits all her fire.”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“to the devil with learning to dance in the rain i laced tempests through my bones swallowed all the lightning that bit at my boldness, then called down my own personal chorus of thunder, so every storm that came my way knew straightaway i wasn't going quietly”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“IV . my God, my heart clenches into a fist for fear of losing all You've bloomed in it so teach me to pray as poetry could only dream to i cannot help but see stars in the darkest night of my soul if you sing to me of heaven V . we're all just porcelain bones dipped in a prayer and there's no telling what's going to break us so i've come to hold my life lightly in my hands 'cause all these feelings of futility have so heavied my head, that the weight of all this empty could snap my neck at any moment”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“someone planted centuries in my soul. i get so very sure of this every time i try to stretch so much longing across one lifetime there is nothing that leaves you feeling quite so small as having to shove all this being into your one allotted body VII . trouble is i wear my heart on my words so large it chokes me before any sound can come spilling into this electric air”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“i know you are just now learning
to let yourself be tired
so do not fear the cricks
and cracks of you
that is the sound
of a house well-loved
well-learned
well-lived

finally asking its ghosts
to come out (of hiding) for tea”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“waste" seems
such a cruel word for it
but what else do you call
all this time spent being
a stranger to your spirit?”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On