Quotes from Stephanie Roberts

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

there are people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

beneath the caged flutter of hope fear blooms in the liver as a spear where memory burns its fever across the spoke of my body

I see reverence and doubt not as ends of a seesaw but more like spaces on a coil that rotates in continuum.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

You can exercise faith without love, you can have faith without even very much thought, but you can't love without faith. Many failures of love come not from lack of emotion but lack of faith.

those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. if you asked, do you love me, i almost certainly don't love you.

Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

I dare to take my foundling hope as bone and drop it in the turbulent rise of your body.

If I took hold of your lower jaw with my smallest fingers resting near your lobes and my thumbs lightly against the start of your ah would I find where you seem to begin?

Perchance, one day you wake in a tub of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let this whole forest of hurt love you?

i'm going to love again so quietlyno one will know i'm home.

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.