Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

— Michelle Tea

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

— Michelle Tea

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

— Michelle Tea

She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.

— Michelle Tea

She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.

— Michelle Tea

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

— Michelle Tea

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did... Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

— Michelle Tea

The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

— Michelle Tea

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

— Michelle Tea

Wynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk, and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released, so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

— Michelle Tea