“i bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic. – the lie”
― salt.
― salt.
“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
―
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
―
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
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―
“Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed”
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Nayyirah Waheed”
―
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
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