Miriam Joy quotes:

I cut off all my hair, cut awayat the soft curves of my clothinguntil I have edges once again,using my body like broken glassto slice at the world around me.I have to take something back,because I have nothing more to give.Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?

In May I keep count.Two and a half more days of school;five between exams.Twenty thousand words of a noveland four poems and six borrowed books.More numbers to add to counting my pillsand trying to work out how to stay awake.

In my mind he is a demon and a godand I blame him, I blame him, I blame himfor the world I created on my ownas much as the one he built around me.

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me,bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.

In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me.