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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

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

Warsan Shire quotes: Two people who were once very close canwithout blameor grand betrayalbecome strangers.perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

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 quotes: I've heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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 quotes: My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

Warsan Shire quotes: to love and lose and still be kind

to love and lose and still be kind

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

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

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

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: I learn urgentlythe architecture of lossthen find you again.

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

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

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

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: You can't make homes out of human beingssomeone should have already told you that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Warsan Shire quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back.

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

Warsan Shire quotes: I belong deeply to myself.

I belong deeply to myself.

Warsan Shire quotes: Her body is one long sigh.

Her body is one long sigh.

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

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