Sierra DeMulder

“Writing a list of ways I could be betterand writing a suicide noteare the same thing”

“You wonder why I don’t answer your 3 a.m. phone calls. When you say “I miss you”, I begin to undress myself out of habit.”

“I loved you head over handleslike my first bicycle accident —before the mouthful of gravel and blood,I swore we were flying.”

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

“Your body is not a temple.Your body is the house you grew up in.How dare you try to burn it to the ground.You are bigger than this.You are biggerthan this.”

“You are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he is gone.”

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”