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“I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. Home is the barrel of a gun. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying--leave, run, now. I don't know what I've become.”
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
“In this truth, in this faith, we trust. For while we have our eyes on the future, History has its eyes on us.”
― Call Us What We Carry
― Call Us What We Carry
“The PTSD had always told me I am alone. That I am unlovable. That I am toxic. But now, it is clear to me: That was a lie. My PTSD clouded my vision of what was actually happening.”
― What My Bones Know
― What My Bones Know
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
“Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?”
― Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
― Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
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