You can't make homes out of human beings.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

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

When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

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