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“the centre of every poem is this:
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.

— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

“you want to know the logic behind my actions?
here is one explanation:
call me by a man’s name instead of a woman’s,
and suddenly every horrific thing i’ve done
makes me a hero.”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

“but tell me, who was it that made you dangerous?

it was no one.

it was me.


it was everyone.”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho