If I were the ocean I could pull back for you. And I could fill up for you. ‘Cause you are the moon and I am but the sea, the wide blue staring up at you.
-Mary Lambert, My Moon

They don’t know why I love you like I do. And gravity don’t have a thing to do with you or me.
-Mary Lambert, My Moon

If I were the ocean I could pull back for you. I could fill up for you ’cause you are the moon.
-Mary Lambert, My Moon

This heart is tired and old. This heart is charcoal and cold. This heart throws the white flag where it gets hard and numb.
-Mary Lambert, This Heart

I give up, I give in to the whole of your skin. I give up, I give in when you let go up again. I give up, I give in. Am I doing this again? I give up.
-Mary Lambert, This Heart

I know girls who are trying to fit into the social norm like squeezing in last year’s prom dress. I know girls who are low rise, mac eye shadow, and binge drinking. I know girls that wonder if they’re disaster and sexy enough to fit in. I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their skin, playing Russian roulette with death. It’s never easy to accept that our bodies are fallible and flawed.
-Mary Lambert, I Know Girls (Body Love)

Some women just have more guts than others.
-Mary Lambert, I Know Girls (Body Love)

The funny thing is women like us don’t shoot. We swallow pills, still wanting to be beautiful at the morgue, still proceeding to put on make-up, still hoping that the mortician finds us fuckable and attractive. We might as well be buried with our shoes and handbags and scarves, girls. We flirt with death every time we etch a new tally mark into our skin. I know how to split my wrists to reveal a battlefield too. But the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies.
-Mary Lambert, I Know Girls (Body Love)

You are worth more than who you fuck. You are worth more than a waistline. You are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts. You are worth more than any naked body could proclaim in the shadows, more than a man’s whim or your father’s mistake. You are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4. You are no less valuable as a 32a than a 36c. Your sexiness is defined by concentric circles within your wood. It is wisdom. You are a goddamn tree stump with leaves sprouting out. Reborn.
-Mary Lambert, I Know Girls (Body Love)

I know I am because I said am. My body is home.
-Mary Lambert, I Know Girls (Body Love)

I once touched a tree with charred limbs. The stump was still breathing. But the tops were just ashy remains. I wonder what it’s like to come back from that because sometimes I feel a forest fire erupting from my wrists. And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
-Mary Lambert, Body Love, Pt. 2

And I don’t play for sinners. I play for sadness. I play for dead things.
-Mary Lambert, Sarasvati

I want every piece of me to crash into every piece of you. I swear to God that’s how they make stars. I know.
-Mary Lambert, Sarasvati

I could make you happy. I could make you love me. I could disappear completely. I could be your love song. I could be long gone. I could be a ghost in your eardrum. When you sleep, will it be with me?
-Mary Lambert, When You Sleep

When you sleep, will it be with me?
-Mary Lambert, When You Sleep

Where did you come from, bright star? What heaven did you leap from, dear love?
-Mary Lambert, Dear One

I will make a house for you and fill it with evergreens. I will paint sunsets on every wall so you can only see beautiful things.
-Mary Lambert, Dear One

How can I say “love” without wanting to fold myself into you like a thousand paper cranes?
-Mary Lambert, Dear One

I was halved the moment I was born. The other piece of me is inside your mouth. And I was found whole the moment you spoke.
-Mary Lambert, Dear One

I’m a million miles away from anywhere. Slide my hands across the sheets, pretend you’re there. But missing you is a slow burn. Every time the Earth turns I’m reminded that night is only half the time.
-Mary Lambert, So Far Away

Kiss me like the world is gonna disappear. I’m a better person when I have you here.
-Mary Lambert, So Far Away

Oh, I got you and I can get through anything as long as I can see your face. Right now you’re so far away.
-Mary Lambert, So Far Away

Even when I’m hurting I know that this is worth it. Tell me it’ll be alright. Gotta give me something to get me through the nothing one more night.
-Mary Lambert, So Far Away

Nobody’s got the time, nobody’s got the time for love…
-Mary Lambert, So Far Away

I’ve got bipolar disorder. My shit’s not in order. I’m overweight. I’m always late. I’ve got too many things to say. I rock mom jeans, cat earrings, extrapolate my feelings. My family is dysfunctional, but we have a good time killing each other.
-Mary Lambert, Secrets

They tell us from the time we’re young to hide the things that we don’t like about ourselves. Inside ourselves I know I’m not the only one who spent so long attempting to be someone else. Well, I’m over it.
-Mary Lambert, Secrets

I don’t care if the world knows what my secrets are. So what?!
-Mary Lambert, Secrets