Top 55 Warsan Quotes
#1. Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.
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#2. To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.
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#3. Later that night she picked the polish off
with her front teeth until the bed you shared
for seven years seemed speckled with glitter
and blood.
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#4. Later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
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#5. I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
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#6. No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark.
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#7. I learn urgently
the architecture of loss
then find you again.
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#8. We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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#9. Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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#10. His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.
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#11. There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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#12. I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
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#13. I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.
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#14. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.
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#15. Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
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#16. Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
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#17. I've heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.
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#18. Every mouth you've ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you've ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don't mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You're here now, welcome home.
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#19. You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.
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#20. Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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#21. You were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching.
loving you was like watching a stranger clean a week old wound; i felt sick, but i wanted more.
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#22. Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
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#23. You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church.
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#24. The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.
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#25. You haven't healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.
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#26. Your mouth is a lonely place but i keep coming back.
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#27. If it'll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.
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#28. You can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
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#29. We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.
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#30. Did you tell people that songs weren't the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?
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#31. I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are
still together.
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#32. If you gave me
half a moon of a chance
i would
kiss the incisors
out of your mouth, clean
and hold them in my
own, like chippings
from an old mug
then
pray my tongue into
a bowl of holy water
and ask god to never
leave you thirsty.
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#33. Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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#36. At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.
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#37. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
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#38. Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
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#39. Give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.
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#40. stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its return.
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#42. Where did you get those big eyes?
My mother.
And where did you get those lips?
My mother.
And the loneliness?
My mother.
And that broken heart?
My mother.
And the absence, where did you get that?
My father.
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#43. I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
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#44. My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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#45. With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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#46. My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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#48. I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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#49. Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.
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#50. Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.
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#51. By the time I've finished with you,
you won't know whether you've been kissed or cut,
whether you were loved or butchered.
and either way you probably won't care,
just grateful you came close enough to touch.
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#52. The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
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#53. When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.
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#54. There's nothing rebellious about loving something that can't love you. You're a woman, you should have known that men in the city would split you in half searching for their fathers in between your legs.
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