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  • #1
    Lang Leav
    “Love is a game
    of tic-tac-toe,
    constantly waiting
    for the next x or o.”
    Lang Leav

  • #2
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #3
    Warsan Shire
    “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #4
    Warsan Shire
    “you are a horse running alone
    and he tries to tame you
    compares you to an impossible highway
    to a burning house
    says you are blinding him
    that he could never leave you
    forget you
    want anything but you
    you dizzy him, you are unbearable
    every woman before or after you
    is doused in your name
    you fill his mouth
    his teeth ache with memory of taste
    his body just a long shadow seeking yours
    but you are always too intense
    frightening in the way you want him
    unashamed and sacrificial
    he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
    lives in your head
    and you tried to change didn't you?
    closed your mouth more
    tried to be softer
    prettier
    less volatile, less awake
    but even when sleeping you could feel
    him travelling away from you in his dreams
    so what did you want to do love
    split his head open?
    you can't make homes out of human beings
    someone should have already told you that
    and if he wants to leave
    then let him leave
    you are terrifying
    and strange and beautiful
    something not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #5
    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Warsan Shire
    “i give myself five days to forget you.
    on the first day i rust.
    on the second i wilt.
    on the third day i sit with friends but i think about your tongue.
    i clean my room on the fourth day. i clean my body on the fourth day.
    i try to replace your scent on the fourth day.
    the fifth day, i adorn myself like the mouth of an inmate.
    a wedding singer dressed in borrowed gold.
    the midas of cheap metal.
    tinsel in the middle of summer.
    crevice glitter, two days after the party.
    i glow the way unwanted things do,
    a neon sign that reads;
    come, i still taste like someone else’s mouth.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #8
    Warsan Shire
    “your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Warsan Shire
    “To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
    Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

  • #11
    Lang Leav
    “What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
    It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance.

    What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
    It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

    What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:

    It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #12
    Lang Leav
    “Soul Mates

    I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
    Lang Leav

  • #13
    Lang Leav
    “It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.

    "Do you love me?" I ask.

    In your hesitation I found my answer.”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #14
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What a lovely thing a rose is!"

    He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.

    "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #17
    Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of
    “Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.
    Robin McKinley, Sunshine

  • #18
    Jarod Kintz
    “Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck off.”
    Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

  • #19
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #20
    Lauren DeStefano
    “We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.”
    Lauren DeStefano, Sever

  • #21
    Shannon L. Alder
    “You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #24
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #25
    Julian Barnes
    “Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #26
    Kresley Cole
    “a man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.”
    Kresley Cole, If You Deceive
    tags: love

  • #27
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #28
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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