The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
Edwidge DanticatOld age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.
Edwidge DanticatTags: death joy impatience
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
Edwidge DanticatIt is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
Edwidge DanticatThe girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.
Edwidge DanticatHere, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
Edwidge DanticatShe told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.
Edwidge DanticatOne of the advantage of being an immigrant is that two very different countries are forced to merge within you. The language you were born speaking and the one you will probably die speaking have no choice but to find a common place in your brain and regularly merge there.
Edwidge DanticatPeople are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
Edwidge DanticatTags: hope
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