If My Body Could Speak Quotes

“Even though trauma has a way of
becoming the wallpaper of my head,

watch me drag the art
out of my suffering.

Watch me plant seeds down my spine
and bloom into a garden of poetry

from every horrible thing that has ever
happened to me, all the nights my voice
turned to cement and I couldn't say anything-

Watch me build an empire from the ashes
of everything that tried to destroy me.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“Half daughter,

half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I don’t know how to talk
about the rabbit hole

without accidentally inviting you
to follow me down it.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“You could literally saw a woman in half

and it would still be called a magic trick.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I am embarrassed

instead of proud

of all the mad things I have done

for happiness”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I am

certain everything is a poem if you catch it

in just the right light”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“I tried to go a whole day pretending

this body is not a memorial of violent memories.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“You were everything bright

and leaving.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“We understood the many ways a mother's shame can haunt a daughter's body.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“Remember:
you did the best you could
in the situation you were in
with the materials you had.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“come back to the city it was easiest for you to breathe in”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“If your body could speak

would she
forgive you?”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“She swallows knives, then gets angry

when you make her spit them out
and don’t name her magic.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak

“When your mother kisses you on the scalp, let her. Let your father hug you, hard.”
― Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak