Noor Shirazie > Noor's Quotes

“If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.”
― Noor Shirazie

“You are made
out of comets
and stars.

Do not surround
yourself with those
that treat you like
dirt and dust.”
― Noor Shirazie

“Some seek
solace in
whiskey,

I drown my
sorrows
in ink.”
― Noor Shirazie

“The day
you tame her
is the day
you tame the
entire ocean.”
― Noor Shirazie

“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 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

“Shame on me for letting you
define all that I was,
all that I am.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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