You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
SUMAYA ENYEGUECan we just pretend we are wanted?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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