We Were Young Quotes

“we pull the table into the corner of the room and lay the comforter down on the wood floor. I get the pillows and you open the wine. I wrap my body around yours and sigh into your chest. when you laugh catches in your throat I want to trap it in a jar and listen to it later. no one every says what a miracle it is to be in love and not suffer for it but every time I look at you, I know. I would fall asleep on the floor every night if it meant resting my head in our love.”
― Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young

“I swallowed love whole like a peach,
juice dripping down my face.
the pit is rotting in my stomach
and here I am.”
― Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young

“we are reckless with each other
because we are young and we don't know yet
how damage can last, how it can grow and spread
and unfurl through a life like the roots of a tree
finding its way through the dirt. for now, it's a way
to amuse ourselves, playing games using each other
as discolored stand-ins for who we really wish was
holding our hand. this will do for now because
we are young and we haven't found a way to be brave
about being alone so we use each other in awful ways
and laugh when we wake up and give it a rest until
the weekend rolls around again and our beds feel
so desperately empty that we have to fill them.
this will do for now, but not much longer.”
― Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young

“we're the adults here so we take naps in the
middle of the afternoon with the window open.
there's an ice cream truck singing down the street
and I haven't hung up my clothes. I text your mother
a picture of you on your first day of work and say
isn't he handsome. our toothbrushes sitting in a cup
on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing
I have ever known.”
― Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young