Yesterday I Was the Moon Quotes

“yesterday — i was the moon
today — just an eclipse
something in me travels; some days it’s to the dark
some days it’s to the light”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“in pieces
yet at peace
i am a building
in a post war city”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“i want stars, strength, and balance in my soul
it's been a while since they were last together in me”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“the kind people
are running this world
they don't know how
their one little smile
has saved many lives”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“like the anger of fire
shapes metal
like the sorrow of a writer
creates poetry
everything that is beautiful
doesn't always start beautifully”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was The Moon

“i share a legacy
with the sky
we both know how to carry
some unanswered prayers
and some unshed tears
{the sky & i}”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“nothing teaches better than this trio
the fears, the tears, the years”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“isn't it
breathtakingly beautiful
how you've learned
to grow flowers
from the memories
that died
a long time ago”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“i carry
the stories
the sadness
the victories
of people before me
i'm both a monument
and a future skyscraper
rising from the same skeleton”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“people leave
because
unlike matter
that has firm, solid, strong
molecules
people are made up of
air, fire, earth and water
that change shapes
that keep moving
that cannot stop
and let them be
the things they want
the shapes they like
because
in the end
you too will grow
into something
entirely new
so let them go”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“you’re the moon
and the world is
a lonely wolf; it cries
at the sight of you
for you are glorious
and so out of reach”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Everything that is beautiful doesn't always start beautifully.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“the most beautiful thing in this world isn’t made up of particles. it’s the strength of a person who has seen the collapse of their world, everything they held dear crashing down in a million pieces. yet every morning, they wake up and build their life, all over again. mourning their loss in a tranquil silence. i haven’t yet seen anything more astonishingly beautiful.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“you remind me of my favorite metropolis
sparkling, loud yet hauntingly sad when
the light goes out”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Dreams live as long as the dreamers do.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“I am fighting my losses, my trauma, and everything bringing ache because I don't want to look in the mirror and see a tragedy staring back.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“You existence
reminded me
of sunsets and ocean waves
yet
you still wonder
what it took
for me to fall
for someone like
you”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“do not worry
about people
they're wearing the same flesh
breathing the same chemicals
walking on the same solid earth as you

so why should it matter
when you are them and they are you”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“The universe is a brilliant writer,

it wrote your name
in my stars

before any of us existed

so when the time comes

they’ll light up your path

and lead you straight to me.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“I want to travel to be away from home
so that I can return, loving it as much as
it deserves to be loved.

I want to go away from home
just for returning back here
to realize everything I have ever neglected
is worth loving and
worrying for.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Be kind for this is something a lot of people can never be.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“the price of leaving
is everything
you do not return to a place
but to a memory; soundless
a home becomes another house
a face becomes another name
a city becomes another geographical location
when you leave”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Nothing teaches better
than this trio

the fears, the tears, the years.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“the sunset looked way too pigmented—as if
the color palette of sorrow had been thrown on
it. yes, if sorrow had colors, they would be lilac
mixed with pinks and some sneaky whites like
the clouds at twilight. i thought it was a
masterpiece; a way for nature to share that at the
end of the day, each sobbed whisper goes
directly to the skies. but before that, it leaves
its color on the canvas of earth one last time.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“i am too afraid
of people who have souls like hometowns
warm, forgiving and too kind
that even if you leave; even when you leave
will always welcome you home
remember you with your family name
i am too afraid
of something too homely
when every breath coming out of my body
is shaped like leaving”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Words; they are powerlessly powerful
so use yours
well.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“You'll have to learn
the art of
losing, choosing, and refusing
to win what we call
the game of life.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“i can fix a lot of things
but cannot mend a broken heart
for it is too fragile
and fixing it
is another art
but i hope to learn it soon
as i see mine getting torn
before it breaks into a million pieces
and i am left to fix it
all alone”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“the idea of destruction
keeps running through my veins like blood
yet my bones hold the will to create
everyday blood and bones in me clash
to create something; to destroy something”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“freedom is really expensive and no one will wrap
it in a fancy paper to leave at your doorstep. you
will have to buy it with the currency of blood,
sweat and struggle. it doesn’t twinkle like sparkly
things. it is often shaped like bruised knees
and mourning skin. but what makes it too precious is
the fact that a lot of currencies will never be
strong enough to bid for it. this is where
it becomes insanely priceless.”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon