These hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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