Dysfunctional-relationships Quote by Warsan Shire Download Open image ““We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.”” — Warsan Shire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dysfunctional-relationships Love
“The love we felt for each other while definitely never planned or expected as I suppose most love isnt had irrevocably seared us both… — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
“We swore to take care of each other. To never hurt each other. To love each other unending...” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“They wanted each other. They needed each other. When did love become in love?” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It reminds us that love isn’t something that happens to us — it’s something we’re making together.” — Mandy Len Catron Copy Share Image
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other...” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Love is like a fire, he decided. You could try to control it, but it wasn't always possible. Sometimes the flames burned you and… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky… — Alma Katsu Copy Share
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone i’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year i… — Warsan Shire Copy Share
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps? — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
And you tried to change, didnt you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake¦ You cant make homes… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft,… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“you were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching. loving you was like watching a… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own… — Warsan Shire Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“i give myself five days to forget you. on the first day i rust. on the second i wilt. on the third day i sit with friends but i think about your tongue. i clean my room on the fourth day. i clean my body on the fourth day. i try to replace your scent on the fourth day. the… — Warsan Shire Copy Share
“I got to my place late one night. I was really beat. Getting that key out and into the door was about the last of me. I walked into the bedroom and there was Fay in bed reading the New Yorker and eating chocolates. She didn't even say hello. I walked into the kitchen and looked for something to eat.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can… — Wendy Mahill Copy Share
“Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would be my reality. He never talked poorly about our mother, but he was as honest and sincere as he could be. In a way, he was almost defensive of her to us – trying to help us understand what life had been like… — Janet Louise Stephenson Copy Share
“It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback of "Nine Stories" had fallen flat. "Where's the thing?" I said. "What thing?" "The mesh. My mesh ." She shrugged. "I tossed it." "Tossed it? Where? What do you mean?" In the next moment I was in the kitchen, flipping… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share
“Your heart was a wishing well. Bottomless. Trying to love you bankrupted me.” — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
