Danabelle Gutierrez Quotes

#1. The first summer that we spent together,
we did so many obscene things to each other, that
by the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,
leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#2. Why kill a wild thing
when you can take it home and tie it down?

Danabelle Gutierrez

#3. Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

Danabelle Gutierrez

#4. My tongue was handed down to me
by datus and katipuneros. The truth is
my mouth is a battlefield that
you wouldn't know how to fight in.

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#5. I've never known love
that wasn't an animal waiting to devour.

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#6. But when I think of us,
in the quiet when I'm on my own,
I think of Beauty and the Beast.

I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#7. If it doesn't feel like your heart
is either drowning or is being set on fire
then it probably isn't worth it at all.

Love is all consuming.
It is the perfect murder,
the sweetest suicide.

Let it kill you.

It's worth it, I swear.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#8. He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

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#9. there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.

...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#10. I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,
but we memorize the strangest things in a person
when we're in love with them.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#11. Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.

And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#12. Drink wine in new cities.
Forget that you were ever
intoxicated by the vowels
of his name.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#13. There is no gentle here.

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#14. And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#15. You said: "Wait for the moon with me."
I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#16. you see, the thing is, I just don't know
how to write anything that doesn't
start with a lump in my throat.
And I really don't know how to write anything
that doesn't end with your hands on my neck.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#17. Even through the smoke,
you are still the most beautiful thing
in this city and I, well, I am still
the last thing you'd save in a fire.

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#18. You were a furious bull
and I was a china shop
with beautiful red curtains.

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#19. Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

Danabelle Gutierrez