"I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running."
- Warsan Shire
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers."
"You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that."
"It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me."
"Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for to..."
"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat."
"The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon."
"later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere."
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."
"Did you tell people that songs weren’t the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?"