“We Lose Ourselves In Things We Love. We Find Ourselves There, Too.”

Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.”

— Blue is the Warmest Color

“Loving you was like going to war, I never came back the same.”

— Warsan Shire

Joy Harjo, from “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet”, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Rifqa”

[Text ID: “I cried—not for the house / but for the memories I could have had inside it.”]

When the time comes, you will see who is fake. Do not let it be you.