The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you’re happy is a sham. I didn’t even want to be happy anymore because I’d rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I.

— Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea Quotes

I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog’s tongue, pant, pant.

— Michelle Tea

Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

— Michelle Tea

One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing.

— Michelle Tea

This mouth had kissed me so much it had worn its own grooves into my teeth. It was like settling into the armchair that fit exactly the round of your body, only it was incredibly exciting because everything was different now, and it was horribly wrong to be kissing. It would only prolong everything. I sat there in the bus shelter, back up against the glass, hoping the bug would never come. Desperation is the sexiest emotion.

— Michelle Tea

To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful?

— Michelle Tea

She kissed her like she’d been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot.

— Michelle Tea

The messed-up queers Michelle ran with tempted fate daily, were creating a new way to live, new templates for everything – life, death, beauty, aging, art.

— Michelle Tea

She was magnificent. She wasn’t so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence.

— Michelle Tea

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

— Michelle Tea

Am I in an abusive relationship? Because even though Fake Johnny Depp’s torments were never physical, they made me feel so completely unhinged that I actually hit myself. Nothing slams the self-esteem like hitting your own freaking self. This was the cycle of violence I found myself in, due in no small part to the heady effects of.

— Michelle Tea

I don’t mind doing awful things as long as somebody else does. I would totally jump off the bridge, thanks for asking.

— Michelle Tea

Nearly all the queers Michelle knew were fuckups in one way or another.

— Michelle Tea

On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smacked some roaches.

— Michelle Tea

You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.

— Michelle Tea

Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

— Michelle Tea

To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!

— Michelle Tea

No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work.

— Michelle Tea

I kissed her hand. My seduction technique is best filed under Obvious.

— Michelle Tea

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

— Michelle Tea

The heartbreak of having written and published a first book is that the world then expected you to write a second.

— Michelle Tea
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