Michelle Tea Quotes

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.

How many lovers did a person need, anyway?

It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.

I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.