My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.”
“My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That’s all life is, on this earth anyway.”
“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But”
“That’s the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don’t stop to say “I can’t” or “Should I,” they just do.”
“Is that your lesson?” she asked him. “I’m sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it’s gone. Isn’t that what you were always trying to tell me?” Her damp eyes glimmered.”
“a remark Khaldun had made once, when Dawit returned from the battlefield against the Italians: What do you gain from it, Dawit? Must a scythe prove itself sharper than a blade of grass? Let grass grow as it will. While”
“Your strength is the strength of stones. Suddenly,”
“When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of a loved one to another man’s violence, you know nothing of grief.”
“They had to work at it, but they found their common ground. Ultimately, though, their differences returned, and she wondered how deeply they ran. How could she continue to overlook them, when they loomed so large? Jessica”
“So there is light but only if you can see past the pain,”
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Book Keywords:
trauma, grief
