“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

—  Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones

Source: The Farming of Bones

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Novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1969

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