84 Quotes by Warsan Shire

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

There’s nothing rebellious about loving something that can’t love you. You’re a woman, you should have known that men in the city would split you in half searching for their fathers in between your legs.

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.