So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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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 always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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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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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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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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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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