The feminine urge to stay safe.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAll I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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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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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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