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Fortesa Latifi Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“words like I love you
and I’m leaving you
are next to each other
when I thought they’d stay worlds apart”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: I Love You, Leaving, Breakups
“we loved each other until we didn’t. there is no way to turn this into poetry.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Falling Out Of Love
“the good news is I survived knowing you.
the bad news is you were something
I had to survive.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Breakups, surviving, Toxic Relationships
“I have never been comfortable with blame
so I throw it into the air
like confetti.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Blame, villain, Passing Blame
“People thought I was stupid or heroic. I don’t know which is better.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Stupid, Heroic, Outside Opinions
“We are building this place with our own trembling hands and it is better than we ever thought.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Home, Building A Home, Nostalgia
“First things first. I hate to spoil the ending but you’re going to make it.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Survival, survive, surviving
“when we break up for the last time,
I realize I’ve forgotten how to fall apart
so I hold myself together instead”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: Breakups, Leaving, Holding It Together
“you taste like cigarettes and blue jelly ranchers and underneath that, the stars that died to make you.”
— Fortesa Latifi
Tagged: Literary Sext
“I pretend I don’t hear when someone
calls my name from across the room. I swear it won’t happen
again and then swear when it happens again.”
— Fortesa Latifi, American Spirit
Tagged: Poetry, Mistakes, Messiness
“I won’t ever tell them the bad things because I like being the good one.”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Relationships, Love
“there are still things I can’t admit.
there are still things I can’t believe
I did to make you love me.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Breaking Up, Breakups
“I know how it feels to be in a fistfight with yourself, with your memories, with your trauma, with your pain.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Pain, Trauma, Battles, Internal Struggle
“The promise I need you to make is this: We’ll see each other tomorrow.

Tonight doesn’t always keep its promises, but tomorrow has potential.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: tomorrow, Hope, Potential
“I want to be happy in a simple way where I stop having nightmares and trust love when it says it’s staying.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Trust, Love, Happy
“There are candles flickering and everything
smells like light. Everything looks like love.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, New Love
“all i know
is that
you are the most beautiful thing
I have ever known”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, beauty, New Love, Falling In Love
“we spend hours picking our lipstick
and call it an afternoon well spent. underneath,
our skin hurts. it is trying so hard to grow
and we are trying so hard to stop it.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Growing Up, beauty, Self-Image
“The only thing that seems more impossible than keeping love is losing it and I don’t know how to do either one.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Losing Love, Lost in Love
“You are offering me a place to lay my head
and it is the best thing I’ve ever been given.”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: Love, New Love, Falling In Love
“The stubble on your face is a quiet reminder of how much growing we have left to do.”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: Growing, Love, Reminders, Poetry
“I am tugging on our love with both hands and even that isn’t enough to pull you out of yourself.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Being Enough, Unrequited Love, Asking For Love
“you’re clumsy in love
falling into it like the summer you stumbled
into a cactus during a game of tag
and had to pull the stickers out one by one.”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Love, Clumsy in Love, Messy
“there is something that
appeals to us about being
the main character in a story
this awful.”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Addicted To Love
“I wouldn’t know how to put one foot in front of the other if your strength hadn’t taught me.”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: strength, Learning, Hope
“Have I ever told you what a miracle it is to love and not suffer for it?”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Sadness, Love, suffering for love
“our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Relationships, Growing Up, Commitment
“I am sorry. I am sorry.
there is no grace in trying
not to love you anymore.
look away if you have to.
there is no grace here.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Sorrys, Love, Leaving, Moving On
“I need you to be a monster /
which is to say, I am trying not to love you /
which is to say, I am still dreaming of kissing your claws.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Difficult To Love, monsters
“I could’ve been
the only good thing.
We could’ve called it love.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: what ifs, Unrequited Love, Good Things, Love
“I have been the villain before
but I have never written about it.
I have said I was sorry so many times
but only meant it once.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: villain, Sorry, Apologies, Honesty
“If you don’t want to talk, we can watch SpongeBob. If you don’t want to talk, we can cry.”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: talking, Crying, Friendship
“You only call me when you’re drunk and you say the same thing every time. Something about regret. Something about love. Something about their feeling the same. Something about their tasting different.”
— Fortesa Latifi, This Is How We Find Each Other
Tagged: Drunk, Drunk Dials, Love, Uncertainty
“It’s my turn to twist something beautiful in my hands until it falls to pieces. They’ll fall through my fingers and onto the ground and I won’t even look back.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Leaving, No Looking Back, Breaking Things
“I am not always proud of the people I love.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Pride, Love, Loving The Wrong People
“my teeth are showing but it still doesn’t look like a smile.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: smiling, Sadness, Depression, Internalization
“you could live on love.”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Love, In love with love
“All this feeling doesn’t make you weak.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Feelings, Weak, Emotion
“I want to tear this love from my skin but it stays.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Stuck on Love
“you fell apart in my hands
like fruit I waited too long to eat”
— Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young
Tagged: Poetry, Young Love, Timing
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