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.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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These hands keep a score of everything.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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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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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Love is more thicker than forget.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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