“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

—  Edwidge Danticat , book Breath, Eyes, Memory

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Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

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Novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1969

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