Quotes by : Warsan Shire

all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.

[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not....

Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have....

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy.....

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

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years....

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity.....

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around,....