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“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

“i will tell you about selfish people. even when they know they will hurt you they walk into your life to taste you because you are the type of being they don’t want to miss out on. you are too much shine to not be felt. so when they have gotten a good look at everything you have to offer. when they have taken your skin your hair and your secrets with them. when they realize how real this is. how much of a storm you are and it hits them.

that is when the cowardice sets in. that is when the person you thought they were is replaced by the sad reality of what they are. that is when they lose every fighting bone in their body and leave after saying you will find better than me.

you will stand there naked with half of them still hidden somewhere inside you and sob. asking them why they did it. why they forced you to love them when they had no intention of loving you back and they’ll say something along the lines of i just had to try. i had to give it a chance. it was you after all.

but that isn’t romantic. it isn’t sweet. the idea that they were so engulfed by your existence they had to risk breaking it for the sake of knowing they weren’t the one missing out. your existence meant that little next to their curiosity of you.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“all the women. in me. are tired.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean they value you.

Read it over.

Again

And let those words resonate in your mind.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“the cure for apathy is memory.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“you are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“the hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water. do not worry. this is grief. your face will fall out and down your skin and there will be scorching. but do not worry. keep speaking the years from their hiding places. keep coughing up smoke from all the deaths you have died. keep the rage tender. because the soft season will come. it will come. loud. ready. gulping. both hands in your chest. up all night. up all of the nights. to drink all damage into love. – therapy”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“decolonization requires acknowledging. that your needs and desires should never come at the expense of another’s life energy. it is being honest that you have been spoiled by a machine that is not feeding you freedom but feeding you the milk of pain. – the release”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“would
you still want to travel to
that
country
if
you could not take a camera with you.

-a question of appropriation”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. — the becoming”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables