Healing can look a lot like violence.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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There is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
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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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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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