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Eating Wasps
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Other people’s burdens are easily shouldered because you know that one day they will be lifted off your back. Not your own – the weight cuts into the flesh even as you hoist it onto your back. You know the burden and you will never be
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Maybe it is unrelated, maybe it is related by way of me also being a woman trying to veer from my assigned gender roles: I found these lines to be resolving and making sense of so many of my own conflicts.
“Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.”
― Maps for Lost Lovers
― Maps for Lost Lovers
“The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street, their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.”
― Maps for Lost Lovers
― Maps for Lost Lovers
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
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