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“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”
― The Art of Seduction
― The Art of Seduction
“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“Do you ever feel like you’re only ever watching? I ask Declan. Never really participating. Never really doing. Just always watching.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“There is a Haitian saying that might upset the aesthetic sensibilities of some women.
‘Nou led, nou la,’ it says. ‘We are ugly, but we are here.’ Like the modesty that is common in rural Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than maintaining beauty, be it skin-deep or otherwise. For women like my grandmother, what is worth celebrating is the fact that we are here, that against all odds, we exist.”
― Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Nou led, nou la,’ it says. ‘We are ugly, but we are here.’ Like the modesty that is common in rural Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than maintaining beauty, be it skin-deep or otherwise. For women like my grandmother, what is worth celebrating is the fact that we are here, that against all odds, we exist.”
― Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean
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