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r_for_tsundoku 's review for:
The Princess Saves Herself in This One
by Amanda Lovelace
Tumblr poetry is not for everyone but I think it can be great and I do enjoy it. There are some lines in this collection that have just tattooed themselves on my heart. Tattoo preference is deeply personal and so is poetry.
My favourite lines and poems from the book:
*the queen my mother smiled as she offered a cube of sugar in her upturned palm.
greedily, i accepted.
i reached inside my mouth, delicately placing one (just one) on the center of my tongue, & i clamped down.
salt.
that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar
for nineteen years.
- you may be gone, but i still have a stomachache.
*sticks & stones never broke
my bones,
but words made me starve myself until
you could see all of them.
- skin & bone.
*silence has always been my loudest scream.
*there came a time when poetry showed me how to bleed without the demand of blood.
- my most loyal lover.
*he promised to fix me &
he left me more
shattered
than i had been before.
- but now i've got gold in the cracks.
*if love is a battlefield, then i must have forgotten all of my armor at home.
- a war i never agreed to fight.
*the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along.
-she never needed those wings.
*if he was my cup of tea, then you are my cup of coffee.
tea simply isn't enough for me sometimes, but coffee can get me through anything.
- did i make you up?
*somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever met.
- it was like coming home after a long, long day.
*he is even better than books.
- fiction has nothing on you.
*i am so glad we were born during the same lifetime.
- i may not believe in fate, but i believe in you.
*i'm pretty sure you have stardust
running through those veins.
- women are some kind of magic.
*be wary of the boys who only ever tell half-truths because they will only ever be half in love with you.
-slay those dragons.
My favourite lines and poems from the book:
*the queen my mother smiled as she offered a cube of sugar in her upturned palm.
greedily, i accepted.
i reached inside my mouth, delicately placing one (just one) on the center of my tongue, & i clamped down.
salt.
that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar
for nineteen years.
- you may be gone, but i still have a stomachache.
*sticks & stones never broke
my bones,
but words made me starve myself until
you could see all of them.
- skin & bone.
*silence has always been my loudest scream.
*there came a time when poetry showed me how to bleed without the demand of blood.
- my most loyal lover.
*he promised to fix me &
he left me more
shattered
than i had been before.
- but now i've got gold in the cracks.
*if love is a battlefield, then i must have forgotten all of my armor at home.
- a war i never agreed to fight.
*the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along.
-she never needed those wings.
*if he was my cup of tea, then you are my cup of coffee.
tea simply isn't enough for me sometimes, but coffee can get me through anything.
- did i make you up?
*somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever met.
- it was like coming home after a long, long day.
*he is even better than books.
- fiction has nothing on you.
*i am so glad we were born during the same lifetime.
- i may not believe in fate, but i believe in you.
*i'm pretty sure you have stardust
running through those veins.
- women are some kind of magic.
*be wary of the boys who only ever tell half-truths because they will only ever be half in love with you.
-slay those dragons.