#i am aware that baba means father but nonetheless it applies

[terminallyinferiorpoet]

quotes i like mostly probly because of my mommy issues

“Mother, make me, make me a big grey cloud so I can rain on you things I can’t say out loud.” Florence Welch

“Years later, I am seventeen. Half daughter, half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love. When my mother asks if I am gay, I tell her I am sorry.” Blythe Baird

“Be my mother, I said to the trees, in the language of the trees which can’t be transcribed, and they shook their hair back and they bent low with their many arms and they looked into my eyes as only trees can look into the eyes of a person, they touched me with the rain on their fingers till I was all droplets, till I was a mist, and they said they would.” Emily Berry

“My mother is fruit soaked in alcohol. On good days, I call her sangria. The rest of the time, she’s just an alcoholic.” Natasha T. Miller

“Mother, I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly. Some nights, your daughter tears herself apart yet heals in the morning.” Ijeoma Umebinyuo

“I need a father, I need a mother, I need some older wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty.” Sylvia Plath

“If you are sorry that you broke my heart, then I am sorry I have you trapped in the mudroom at a frat party discussing what’s left of my mother’s hand.” Kevin Kantor

“My mother thinks I should come home at the weekends. Perhaps I should get more exercise. Perhaps I should get diagnosed. You don’t know what I’ve done in the small hours. You don’t know what I’ve done to cope.” Phoebe Stucks

“Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence.” Khaleed Hassein

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