Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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 wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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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 know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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