Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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