It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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