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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Healing can look a lot like violence.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Can we just pretend we are wanted?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am tired of only being loved in theory.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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SocratesSocrates Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
Robert FrostRobert Frost She told me that I’m not enough and she left me with a broken heart.
Post MalonePost Malone It is always important to know when something has reached its end.
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