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“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
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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)”
― Letters From Medea
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.
— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Letters From Medea
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