Warsan Shire

"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."

- Warsan Shire

"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."

- Warsan Shire

"My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude."

- Warsan Shire

"I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself."

- Warsan Shire

"Light attracts light."

- Warsan Shire

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

- Warsan Shire

"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land."

- Warsan Shire

"You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love."

- Warsan Shire

"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."

- Warsan Shire

"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

"It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose."

- Warsan Shire

"My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude."

- Warsan Shire