eleven

“But your fear is not only hurting me, it's hurting you, limiting you from being everything you could be. Consider how often you have dismissed your own appearance, behaviours, emotions, and aspirations for being too feminine or masculine. What might your life be if you didn't impose these designations on yourself, let alone on me?”
― Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men.

“seek forgiveness in yourself before searching for it in others,​
people will pick and choose the parts of you they love ​
before discarding the rest. but darling,​
you are not a backyard full of weeds ​
needing to be pulled,​
you are a garden of roses aching with thorns. you deserve to be loved​
only by someone​
who knows how to hold all of you.”
― Pavana Reddy, Rangoli

“You existence
reminded me
of sunsets and ocean waves
yet
you still wonder
what it took
for me to fall
for someone like
you”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“I want to travel to be away from home
so that I can return, loving it as much as
it deserves to be loved.

I want to go away from home
just for returning back here
to realize everything I have ever neglected
is worth loving and
worrying for.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon