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Dunya Mikhail, from "The Iraqi Nights", The Iraqi Nights (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]
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— Sylvia Plath, quoting an acquaintance in ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’
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— Trista Mateer, from “i still forget we’re not even friends”
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Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]
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“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”
— Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum: Stories
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Warsan Shire, from "The House," Her Blue Body
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If they ask you about me, tell them “She was the only girl who loved me with honesty, and I broke her.” ― Shahrazad al-Khalij
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Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken
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