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Naomi
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“In beauty lies hidden pain; in pain, hidden freedom.”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“I was neither a victim nor a prisoner, even though I lived like one, and there were days when the loneliness and loss tore at my heart. My voice, my song, my essence were mine and mine alone.”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“Ah, Letty,’ he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“This prejudice is like a mosquito: I must kill it immediately. If I wait and hope it disappears, I’ll be bled dry by a million irritating bites.”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“I’ve come to understand that in this world, there are those who, in their untouchable privilege, believe that they’re entitled to a perfect life, and the perfect life they get is because they’re so deserving, so good, and true. Their crippled souls are blinded by a naivety that can only understand their life, their pain, their truth. These are the ones who look at us—the mermaids, the fairies, the unicorns—and see only that we don’t fit into their little box of what beauty and truth are. They make token gestures of kindness that are not about what we need, but about what they need to look good in their own eyes, and in the eyes of the world they have moulded to their shallow, selfish limits, leaving us—the magical, the different, the dreamers—feeling less than them; feeling unheard, unseen, and unloved.”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
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