Quotes by : Warsan Shire

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where....

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....

Did you tell people that songs weren’t the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about....

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

Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.

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

The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.