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It was considered foolish to linger underneath a coconut palm because if one of those things landed on your head, it would smash your skull. The Jamaican girl who came in to tidy my room told me that a wealthy American called Mr. Wasserman
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It's nature's way.
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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“I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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