thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
How can something bother you if you won’t let it?
—Terri Guillemets
Even the sun can’t shine on an entire world at once.
—Terri Guillemets
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thanks so much to Rebecca for letting me know that this quote was used in the television show Being Erica. In the episode “Plenty of Fish,”
The emotions are part of the wound.
—Terri Guillemets
As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.
—Terri Guillemets
I’m a coffee is half-full kind of girl.
—Terri Guillemets
life is a treasure map
and also the treasure
—Terri Guillemets
There are two sides to every story. Even my own story. Probably every story I’ve ever told myself.
—Terri Guillemets
Fossils are what ‘now’ looked like forever ago.
—Terri Guillemets