“you love her so bad she can’t breathe.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.comTagged: Deep Love, suffocating, Relationship, Love Advice, life advice
“when i hear your voice, i think ‘that’s my song.’”— Warsan Shire, kushandwizdom.tumblr.comTagged: voice, Love, admiration
“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Very Close to Strangers, Betrayal, Blame, Sad
“so here it is. i loved him, yes. but loving him made me kind of hate myself. and that wasn’t good.”— Warsan Shire, kushandwizdom.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Hatred, Irony, Self-Love
“Just as you have loved before, you will love again.”— Warsan Shire, thepoetrynotebook.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Second Chance, Ability To Love
“Perhaps the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Love Advice, love quotes, You Are Not The Problem, too much love
“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it, you’re healing. The fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Healing, Scars
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Love, War, Changed
“I don’t know what brings broken people together maybe damage seeks out damage the way stains on a mattress halo into one another the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.comTagged: Poetry, Lovers, Relationships, Writing, Broken People