Sumaya Enyegue on afraid
Sumaya Enyegue50 quotes“Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.”
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Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Healing can look a lot like violence.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Can we just pretend we are wanted?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue 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 EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am tired of only being loved in theory.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Women like me bleed on command.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue This body belongs to all those who live in it.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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T.L. MartinT.L. Martin I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
Golda MeirGolda Meir It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
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