Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWe romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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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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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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