Lou > Lou's Quotes

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
― Warsan Shire

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire

“If it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.”
― Warsan Shire

“To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“I lost you
when you left me
to find yourself.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“A man touched me: 
his hand... my thigh.

I touched him too: 
my fist... his jaw.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard.

It makes me so happy.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3