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“What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. It’s not on you to convince him not to.”
― The Quiet Tenant
― The Quiet Tenant
“What’s bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.”
― They're Going to Love You
― They're Going to Love You
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“So when my mother asks me to forgive her, I say, "Of course I do."I don't tell her again that she couldn't have stopped it, that it wasn't her fault and that she didn't deserve it. I swallow those words instead. Maybe somewhere deep in my belly, they'll take root and grow.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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