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Quotes from A Woman of Endurance — Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

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"Your body is only a vessel. Your essence is inviolate. It is only when you give up your soul that you are lost."

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She moved by rote, dragging her grief into the fields with her. (chapter 12 p149)

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They take her in, questions hanging from their eyes. (chapter 16, p211)

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“Remember the time before the hurting, for that’s where the healing lives. Find the joy of the before and know you can find it again. You have a big heart and there are many paths to healing.”

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The babble that rose around them as they stood on the pier was deafening. It sounded like no speech Pola had ever heard, the words, jagged, grating sounds that attacked the ear.

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Remember to open your heart. Learn to recognize gifts offered on your journey. (chapter 25 p325)

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“When are you going to see that the only way we can carry our burdens is to share them?” (p310)

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She knows for certain that the poisonous barb of humiliation has done much more damage than the lash ever did. (p277)

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Working the knots has taught me something: to wait is not to waste time; to wait is to take time to see, to listen, to unfold and untangle what has come before. (chapter 10 p120)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.