Matushevskaya

“i want to stay. i want to leave. i am three oceans away from my soul. – lost”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“what i never learned from my mother was that just because someone desires you does not mean they value you. desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving. – the color of low self esteem”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“in your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“and i heard her say, ‘you are afraid of love. but love is not afraid of you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma