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. _x000D_ Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? _x000D_ You’re here now, welcome home.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on past experiences leading to a meaningful relationship in the present.
Warsan Shire's quote emphasizes the importance of previous relationships and experiences in shaping one's ability to appreciate a significant connection. It suggests that each past interaction, no matter how fleeting, prepares us for a deeper bond with someone special, ultimately leading us to a feeling of belonging and home with that person.
In practice
During a heartfelt moment at a wedding, this quote can evoke nostalgia and gratitude for the journey that brought the couple together.
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.
We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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.
Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
You can't make homes out of human beings.
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.
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.
Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear
Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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