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Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
– NoViolet Bulawayo

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  1. And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers’ mothers. A nation’s memory. – NoViolet Bulawayo
  2. Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it’s something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into. – NoViolet Bulawayo
  3. this place doesn’t look like my America – NoViolet Bulawayo
  4. That’s what you do in America: you smile at people you don’t know and you smile at people you don’t even like and you smile for no reason. – NoViolet Bulawayo
  5. You want Change, today we’ll show you Change!Here’s your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat! – NoViolet Bulawayo
  6. If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  7. It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. – MH Abrams
  8. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. – Edmund de Waal
  9. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. – Ayn Rand
  10. Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why? – Daniel Marques
  11. The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  12. As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf
  13. A great Country is not the Country with a great population,but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship. – AuliqIce
  14. No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  15. Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness. – Parul Wadhwa
  16. The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic. – Victor Hugo
  17. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely. – Heidi Priebe
  18. Your eyes are hallow,Your heart is bruised,Your temple has been raided,Your soul has been shattered,Was he worth it? – Tanzy Sayadi
  19. you are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised. – Sanober Khan
  20. All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. – Ian Fleming
  21. to live at all is to be bruised – Sarah Perry
  22. Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions-¦ bruised emotionsNever distressed me. – Balroop Singh
  23. Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos. – Shannon L Alder
  24. It’s not because I don’t want to hurt Delia’s feelings. It’s because when she is bruised, I’m the one who aches. – Jodi Picoult
  25. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. – Leila Sales
  26. Don’t worry, Evie; my heart isn’t broken, only bruised. – Gillian Shields
  27. I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality. – Adib Khan
  28. All the bruised lives, searching hearts…Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one. – Donna Lynn Hope
  29. I have reached this destinationAfter walking through miles and miles;See also my bruised feet,Don’t always go after my smiles-¦ – Neelam Saxena Chandra
  30. Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny’s sickening corpse, at the face of their mother. – Michael Grant
  31. Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now. – Cassandra Clare
  32. Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  33. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. – Ayn Rand
  34. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon. – Stephen L Carter
  35. Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds. – Steven Franssen
  36. Even over the sound of a thousand voices…I still can hear my own, only after I listened to hers. – James Emlund
  37. We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. – Dejan Stojanovic
  38. Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It’s imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking. – Toni Sorenson
  39. Preachers love only their own voices. – John Berger
  40. When their voices didn’t reach my ears,I rebelled against my own skin too young to realize that without their stories I would starve. – Kiana Davis

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