It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
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— Warsan Shire, from “Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head.”
[Text ID: I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. Home is the barrel of a gun. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying leave, run, now. I don't know what I've become.]
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Perhaps the problem is not the intensity of your love but the quality of the people you are loving.
Warsan Shire
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what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire
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— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire
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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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My alone feels so good. I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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— Warsan Shire (via lunamonchtuna)
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire
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Loving you was like going to war, I never came back the same.
Warsan Shire
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pain is not the only touchstone for growth
melanie martinez, womb / warsan shire, backwards / mary oliver, “blue iris.” devotions / jmfenner / nayyirah waheed / jenny slate, little weirds / @soapstore on tumblr / jenny slate, little weirds / ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous / sue zhao / @emmablowguns on twitter / jenny slate, little weirds / ottessa moshfegh, my year of rest and relaxation / @anariafortheendoftimes on tumblr / mary oliver, upstream / marya hornbacher, waiting / robert de flers
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