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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'. — Warsan Shire

Did you tell people that songs weren't the same as a warm body, a soft mouth? — Warsan Shire

I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are
still together. — Warsan Shire

There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters. — Warsan Shire

I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel. — Warsan Shire

You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire

No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark. — Warsan Shire

You haven't healed, I can tell from how cruel you are. — Warsan Shire

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. — Warsan Shire

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do. — Warsan Shire

Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. — Warsan Shire

To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire. — Warsan Shire

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. — Warsan Shire

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay. — Warsan Shire

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy — Warsan Shire

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

I've heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto. — Warsan Shire

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. — Warsan Shire

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. — Warsan Shire

My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth. — Warsan Shire

to love and lose and still be kind — Warsan Shire

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living. — Warsan Shire

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there. — Warsan Shire

The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon. — Warsan Shire

I learn urgently
the architecture of loss
then find you again. — Warsan Shire

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck. — Warsan Shire

Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths. — Warsan Shire

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing. — Warsan Shire

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire

You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church. — Warsan Shire

I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. — Warsan Shire

You can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that — Warsan Shire

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire

We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love. — Warsan Shire

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving. — Warsan Shire

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals. — Warsan Shire

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes. — Warsan Shire

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

Your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back. — Warsan Shire

I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire

Her body is one long sigh. — Warsan Shire

If it'll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day. — Warsan Shire