Into the Wildfire Quotes

“And there will be someone that comes along one day and offers you an entire galaxy when you only expected a single planet”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I replay the memories like an old cassette,
one that can never be thrown away
no matter how damaged the tape becomes.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“My playlists are cluttered
with sad songs and fractured memories,
yet I unconvincingly claim I am trying to
move on.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Tell me we were more
than words on a page.
Remind me that we were as sweet
as the taste of each poem on my tongue.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Even though I outgrew you
like a shrunken sweater,
I still like to open up the closet
in the neglected corner of my room
and reminisce what fit me perfectly once upon a time.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“No matter how diligently I try to forget you, my hands keep opening this book to your pages.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I sense him in the lost crevices of my heart, abandoned alleyways which have not known the rhythm of footsteps in centuries. I see him too clearly to ever let him become a distant memory. I feel him too vividly to ever let my hand brush the hand of another.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“How ironic⎼
out of all the people to feel like home,
you did.
out of all the people to uproot my home,
you did.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Shame on me for letting you
define all that I was,
all that I am.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I shudder to speak of you,
but sadly, that does not mean
I dream of you any less.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Tormented by remembering, tortured by forgetting—she is the master of reincarnation, dying each time her thoughts dwell upon him.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“If only I had known how quickly the days would elapse, how small the window of time would be in which I could have told you how much you truly mean to me.
Know it now—
I love you, I love you, I love you.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I do not know how to forget you.
It cannot be learned, nor willed.
You are with me, for better or worse.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Maybe if our fingers did not
interlock as perfectly as they used to,
if our sentences were not
completed by each other,
I would be able to forget you.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Burning a bridge is not always easy
when you trust someone to build it with you
from the strongest steel.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“i refuse to go quietly.

if we are to end this,
you will allow me to mourn from the rooftop,
crumble with enough fury to shake the earth,
and compose myself with enough dignity
to impress us both.

we shall move on,
but not before i respect us enough
to give this the farewell it deserves.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Even if I were to throw
any of your belongings
into the hungry flames,
I know you shall never leave me in peace.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“It is incredible how the mouth that whispers, "I can't live without you" between bedsheets,
is the same mouth to end it all, telling her she was never enough.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I hope you question every reason for leaving, no matter how carefully constructed they may be. I hope I plant enough doubts in your mind to counter the many sleepless nights you cruelly left me with.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“You and I are a tale from ancient times,
but I am too afraid to wipe off the memories
and flip through our pages.
Words will only amplify
an injury too deep for poetry.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I was nothing but a nomad to you.
Destined to leave,
         inclined to stay.
I would have gladly rewritten
my entire journey for you,
but you already viewed me as a traveler.
“Wait for me,” you murmured,
with no intention of ever returning.
I was your right now
after you became my infinity.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“Is it too aggressive of me to say
I want to rip the past into shreds?
I cannot change how I feel,
and you cannot change
how catastrophically this ended.
I do not want to remember anything—
not you,
     not how my heart heals differently now.
I want you to stop existing in the past
as easily as you stopped existing in my future.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“The blame weighs down on me like a ton of bricks,
and I start to believe our divide is all my fault.
“I did this, I did this,”
sobbing to myself over and over again.
The truth ceases to matter.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“I was never a skilled player
when it came to your wicked games.
Maybe you can help me perfect
the art of breaking someone slowly.
I hope you and your conscience
sit in the middle of the night
and discuss past crimes for hours on end.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

“i wanted you to love me so badly, so deeply, that i lost sight of anything else capable of receiving such devotion.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures