We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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 wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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