I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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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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