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Etaf Rum Quote: “She thinks about the stories stacked across the shelves, leaning against one another like burdened bodies, supporting the works within each other. There must be hundreds of them, thousands even. Maybe her story is in here somewhere. Maybe she will finally find it.”

51. “She thinks about the stories stacked across the shelves, leaning against one another like burdened bodies, supporting the works within each other. There must be hundreds of them, thousands even. Maybe her story is in here somewhere. Maybe she will finally find it.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Yet as much as she wanted to go out there and venture into the world, there was also a comfort and safety in the known.”

52. “Yet as much as she wanted to go out there and venture into the world, there was also a comfort and safety in the known.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “When a woman is shamed and devalued in her community, she learns that the most traumatic events of her life will never be recognized as legitimate, and with that she learns there is no reason to speak them, that to do so might even be dangerous. Instead of reaching out, she is taught to reach in, conceal, pretend. When she internalizes this experience, she begins to enforce this silence in the women around her, teaching her daughters and granddaughters to do the same, a passing down of silence.”

53. “When a woman is shamed and devalued in her community, she learns that the most traumatic events of her life will never be recognized as legitimate, and with that she learns there is no reason to speak them, that to do so might even be dangerous. Instead of reaching out, she is taught to reach in, conceal, pretend. When she internalizes this experience, she begins to enforce this silence in the women around her, teaching her daughters and granddaughters to do the same, a passing down of silence.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She’d be a writer, helping people understand the world through stories.”

54. “She’d be a writer, helping people understand the world through stories.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Books were my armor. Everything I’d ever learned growing up, all my thoughts, dreams, goals, experiences, it all came from the books I read. It was like I went around collecting knowledge, plucking it from pages and storing it up, waiting for a chance to use it.”

55. “Books were my armor. Everything I’d ever learned growing up, all my thoughts, dreams, goals, experiences, it all came from the books I read. It was like I went around collecting knowledge, plucking it from pages and storing it up, waiting for a chance to use it.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “And yet she was no longer a child who could be sustained by the possibility of a better life. This was it. This was her life. Her chance to do better. And she was failing.”

56. “And yet she was no longer a child who could be sustained by the possibility of a better life. This was it. This was her life. Her chance to do better. And she was failing.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “I can tell my own story now, she thinks. And then she does.”

57. “I can tell my own story now, she thinks. And then she does.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Why did she have to be so afraid, so sensitive, so affected by the world?”

58. “Why did she have to be so afraid, so sensitive, so affected by the world?”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there.”

59. “She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She couldn’t believe how quickly time had passed, that she had gotten old. Old – she shook the thought away. It was not the thought of being old that bothered her rather the realization of what her life had amounted to. What a shame, she thought now as she waited for sleep to come...”

60. “She couldn’t believe how quickly time had passed, that she had gotten old. Old – she shook the thought away. It was not the thought of being old that bothered her rather the realization of what her life had amounted to. What a shame, she thought now as she waited for sleep to come...”

Etaf Rum Quote: “That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn’t say, had to watch them closely.”

61. “That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn’t say, had to watch them closely.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Fear has a way of putting things in perspective.”

62. “Fear has a way of putting things in perspective.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She was a soul torn down the middle, broken in two. Straddled and limited. Here or there, it didn’t matter. She didn’t belong.”

63. “She was a soul torn down the middle, broken in two. Straddled and limited. Here or there, it didn’t matter. She didn’t belong.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Perhaps she had never confronted the voice in her head because it had been easier to listen to it. It had been safer to sustain the belief that she was a bad person. At least then she was in control. At least then she could arrange her life so carefully that her badness didn’t spill out and leak everywhere. But she would no longer be able to live her life with this regret, paralyzed by all the words she hadn’t said.”

64. “Perhaps she had never confronted the voice in her head because it had been easier to listen to it. It had been safer to sustain the belief that she was a bad person. At least then she was in control. At least then she could arrange her life so carefully that her badness didn’t spill out and leak everywhere. But she would no longer be able to live her life with this regret, paralyzed by all the words she hadn’t said.”

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