Anya Blanche > Anya's Quotes

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

“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

“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

“I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. 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

“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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

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

“If it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.”
― Warsan Shire

“There’s nothing rebellious about loving something that can’t love you. You’re a woman, you should have known that men in the city would split you in half searching for their fathers in between your legs.”
― 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

“she asked ‘you are in love what does love look like’ to which i replied ‘like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“can we speak in flowers.
it will be easier for me to understand.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“if the ocean can calm itself so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air. – meditation”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“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.

“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

“my whole life i have ate my tongue. ate my tongue. ate my tongue. i am so full of my tongue you would think speaking is easy. but it is not. – for we who keep our lives in our mouths”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“if you show someone the sun in your bones and they reject you you must remember. they hurt themselves this very same way. – unable”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“the thing you are most afraid to write. write that. – advice to young writers”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

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

“I am your friend. a soul for your soul. a place for your life. home. know this. sun or water. here or away. we are a lighthouse. we leave. and we stay.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”
― Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.”
― Nicole Blackman

“You will start a band.
You will start a magazine.
You will start a family.
You will finish nothing.”
― Nicole Blackman

“I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven”
― Nicole Blackman

“The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.”
― Nicole Blackman, Blood Sugar

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi