blud Quotes

“I raise a fist in solidarity with all who live with mental illness and all who have voiced demands to be seen and understood and loved and honored. We, the most feral singers, we who open our throats to swallow the sky’s shimmering and perfect darkness, we are so goddamn holy.”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“If no child of mine
becomes a poet
will the absence of my tongue shimmer
like betrayal
in their mouths?”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“You have my permission not to love me. I am a cathedral of dead bolts & I’d rather burn myself down than change the locks.”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“Hell-spangled girl spitting teeth into the sink, I’d trace the broken landscape of my body & find God within myself.”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“fell in love with the animal engine of her body, not for the daughter it could nurture, but for the girl it would kill.”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“deliver you into me, so I may carry you as the only mother we have ever known.”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud

“If no child of mine becomes a poet will the absence of my tongue shimmer like betrayal in their mouths?”
― Rachel McKibbens, blud