What does exile taste like, my darling,
what is it to know loneliness?
what is it to know loneliness?
― Farzaneh Khojandi (via honeyandelixir)
My body is burning with the shame of not belonging; my body is longing.
― Warsan Shire, excerpt of Conversations about Home (via antigonick)
me: has a breakdown
me: gets super embarrassed about it the second I calm down
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
― Warsan Shire (via aurorasdreamerie)
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Why be obsessed with him when you can be obsessed with yourself?
The gym isn’t so bad if you imagine that every attractive guy is gay.
A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens ’em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.
― Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener (via quoted-books)
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
― W.H. Auden, from “Funeral Blues” (via theclassicsreader)
All your life, never mind.
It hurts, but never mind.
It hurts, but never mind.
― Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words
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