40 Quotes About Longing-for-love




  • Author Sakshi Narula
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    I didn't love like the women who swiped left and right from one heartbreak to another. I couldn't just trade some skin for scraps of attention from men who would never use a Swiss knife to declare their love for me, by scraping my initials on the bark of an old oak tree or promise me a forever with a lovelock on Ponte Des Arts. I needed a Romeo. I deserved a Shakespeare in love. I deserved a man who had birds flying out of his ribcage every time he saw me smile.

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  • Author Sakshi Narula
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    We rested our tired spines on your terrace waiting for stars to show up and fix our broken constellations, for the moon to be whole, for a meteor shower, for the northern lightsI stayed up staring at the sky every nightbefore falling asleep, before sunriseand you were gone before my eyes were hit by dawnYou were so wrong so, so wrong for meI know that deeplyBut poetically,if you know what I mean Poetically, so right

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