30 Quotes by Aimee Herman

Dear god,Every time I take my clothes off, I stop believing in you.

collapse teeth into body as though mouth is a ballerina plié over and over into and in

I feel like my body is in a waiting room.

I am in-between the sentence-structure of my body

Call yourself a planet because all this space derives from punctured cells and this floatation device called gender is permitting you to wander.

if breasts were detachable, would you leave them behind

What happens when we say something out loud? Does it become more real? Is it any less really when we keep it to ourselves?

Have you ever accidentally swallowed a piece of celery without chewing? The feeling of its weight lodged in your throat, scraping its way down. You think you’re gonna choke, but your throat takes over and digests it, and it takes all the wind out of you. You need to lie down, catch your breath, maybe even take a nap. That’s how it feels to come out each time.

masculinity is double-jointed and vegetarian. masculinity is sleep-deprived and well-traveled and an immigrant and a soldier