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“Funny how my heart races
funny how my breathing paces
funny with just soft whispers
in a sea of strangers
we make love
without ever touching
two breathless bodies
in a crowded room”
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funny how my breathing paces
funny with just soft whispers
in a sea of strangers
we make love
without ever touching
two breathless bodies
in a crowded room”
―
“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you made in languages you can't even begin to understand.”
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“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
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“To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization even by the colonized.”
― The Colonizer and the Colonized
― The Colonizer and the Colonized
“He will come with a mouth full of forevers and skin as sweet as spring time. He will kiss the places that hurt and will tell you the scars are beautiful. He will cover every inch of you in words he's learned and dress you in the colors of every season and he will not be the one. He will feel like a hurricane and you'll wonder how you will ever recover and rebuild.
But you will.
You always will.
And you'll realize he is not the one.”
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But you will.
You always will.
And you'll realize he is not the one.”
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Elly’s 2025 Year in Books
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