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She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones.

— Maaza Mengiste Shadow King (2019)

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She is mid-sentence, her tongue against her teeth, curving around a word lost forever.

Shadow King (2019)

What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else.

Shadow King (2019)

Here is the truth he wants to ignore: that what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave.

Shadow King (2019)

We all know that war destroys mankind, and in spite of their differences in race, creed, and religion, women all across the world despise war because its fruit is nothing but destruction.

Shadow King (2019)

These aren't the days to pretend you're only a wife or a sister or a mother, she says. We're more than this.

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