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.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
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