Virginie

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire

“Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire

“He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life