This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

- Michelle Tea

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

- Michelle Tea

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it imp…

- Michelle Tea

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her fa…

- Michelle Tea

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

- Michelle Tea

I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on thin…

- Michelle Tea

you are right where you should be / now act like it

- Michelle Tea

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be …

- Michelle Tea

Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me u…

- Michelle Tea