Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed


Nayyirah Waheed

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when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
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never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is no...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
it was only and ever love.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
i think one of the most pathological things i have ever seen is stabbing someone and then telling th...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have ne...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting t...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
but this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
leaving. doesn’t mean that you’ve left.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
i have always been the woman of my dreams.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not gr...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the l...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
poetry.
is the fire leaving my body.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED
You’re touching me,” I chided him.
He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting eve...
ILONA ANDREWS
Brit: What's your major?

Alex: Chemistry. And yours?

Brit: Chemistry. Kiss me ...
SIMONE ELKELES
Elizabeth's fingers slipped around my arm. She stepped forward, her fangs flashing. My breath caught...
KALAYNA PRICE
Daniel,” she whispers.

I groan and drop my forehead to hers, touching her cheek with my...
COLLEEN HOOVER
I grasp words for the sake of clutching
My mind considers them heart touching
Right then ...
MUNIA KHAN
I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep

How did we ...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN
A ball of fire rolled through my stomach, catching on the wings of the butterflies darting around in...
APOLLO BLAKE
Sometimes it feels like even if
Every inch of my skin was touching yours
I still wouldn’...
JUSTIN WETCH
Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?
GERARD WAY
what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the...
JAY SALTER
I don't mind it. I can score, but I like setting my teammates up.
LADONA PIERCE
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my ...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
We are in limbo. What happens next? Until they make the new city the government must give us earthqu...
ABDUL WAHEED
We are in limbo. What happens next?
ABDUL WAHEED
That is a clear violation. They just can't search a vehicle like that, not after a routine speeding ...
WAHEED KHALID
Things happen for a reason; and the reason is hidden
FAISAL WAHEED
This huge demonstration will send a clear signal that although Muslims are ready to hear and respond...
IMRAN WAHEED
This is a blurring of the margins of people who are engaged in non-violent political speech, an atte...
IMRAN WAHEED
Even though the party has been open to intellectual debate and even though the prime minister said h...
IMRAN WAHEED
There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead. Our memb...
IMRAN WAHEED
We have a lot of support among the Muslim community in Britain and it will be seen by the Muslim com...
IMRAN WAHEED
There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead,
IMRAN WAHEED
By doing this, he (Blair) is setting an example to the tyrant rulers of the Muslim world, encouragin...
IMRAN WAHEED
It has had a history of non-violence for the last 50 years and these measures are like what we have ...
IMRAN WAHEED
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a non-violent political party,
IMRAN WAHEED
You never know with kids. I just told them if they had an open look, go ahead and shoot.
WAHEED MITCHELL
Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there.
<...
RICHELLE MEAD
I could feel a fire going up my arm, across my chest and out the top of my head. The only way I can ...
DONNA KULFAN
So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I punched him nos so lightly in the arm. 'Asshole.'
He was silent for a few minutes, and then h...
MICHELLE HODKIN
I tried to hold fire once...see from a distance it mesmerized me
captivated me
for hours...
SANJO JENDAYI
No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?"

...
ELNA BAKER
Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
STEPHEN KING
You're right. And so was my snake."
Snake?"
He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "W...
MARIA V. SNYDER
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And witho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
All I want in my life is-
My mind to Think and My body to Run.
MANALI
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER
My mind is being consumed by you.
My body is longing for you.
Just one touch or a kiss, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI
My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
My pipe is out, my glass is dry;
My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go, ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE
You know I love you right?”

“I know,” he breathed, his arm tightening automatically...
STEPHENIE MEYER
You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
My fault? How the hell is this"--I waved my arm across the table-- my fault?"

"You...
BARBRA ANNINO
XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard t...
BECCA FITZPATRICK
I made up my mind I was going to live, thank the good Lord. I broke my arm when a load of steel fell...
LELAND CHANDLER
I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And ...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'll walk through the fire
With my head lifted high
And my spirit revived
In Your sto...
HILLSONG
You always
drop by, to en-
lighten my mind,
when my wings are
feeling heavy &...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES
Logic is trying to trick my mind into believing that what my heart is saying, is a lie ~
That'...
NIKKI ROWE
Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM
Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING
They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is be...
MURIEL BARBERY
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
While I was looking the other way your fire went out
Left me with cinders to kick into dust
KRISTIN CASHORE
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them ...
ROMAN PAYNE
Then my cell phone buzzes again. I can’t quite get it out of my pocket because my arm is so bloody...
CARRIE JONES
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
I get so breathless, when you call my name,
I've often wondered, do you feel the same?
The...
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.
That's how the s...
EMMA BRYNSTEIN
my mind whispers
to itself
all those lovers
but none of them
loved you
R.H. SIN
My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA
Without thinking, I moved again, reaching out and touching the hand
resting near my thigh. Call...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
The Invisible is moving
Softly and soothing
I feel it inside
It is you
It is my ...
RIXA WHITE
she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. Th...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA
If you don't like my fire,
Then don't come around
Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

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