Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire.
Nayyirah Waheed.
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. B...”
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
“Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.”
“younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you”
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.”
“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.”
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”