"At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before."
- Warsan Shire
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."
"The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do."
"all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun."
"His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay."