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“I was neither a victim nor a prisoner, even though I lived like one, and there were days when the loneliness and loss tore at my heart. My voice, my song, my essence were mine and mine alone.”

Loneliness Victim Self Sufficiency Victim Mentality Self Sufficient Beings

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“These humans, these creatures who play at kindness, are each ruled by wounds that, when triggered, make them the opposite of kind. Often, they justify their actions with excuses as shallow as a rain puddle, unable to see that I have my own kind of beauty simply because I’m a mermaid.”

Beauty Mermaid Triggered Soul Wounds

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“Ah, Letty,’ he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”

Lost Dreams Quotes Finding Your Way Finding Your Path Dreams Coming True Following Your Dreams

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“She was running for all those ordinary, fragile souls whose bodies had been shamed like hers. In them, she had found herself. And so she ran for them, for those who, like her, had found comfort only in cut-out posters of clownfish. Now they had a different poster they could dream about: an athlete, an international star, her body neither fully boy nor fully girl, but simply the body of Johanna Venter, Girl Wonder.”

Gender Gender Roles Gender Identity Body Shame Body Differences

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“This prejudice is like a mosquito: I must kill it immediately. If I wait and hope it disappears, I’ll be bled dry by a million irritating bites.”

Prejudice Mosquito Prejudice Quotes Overcoming Prejudice

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“Today, there was no time for the old rituals and the old ways; there was barely time in each day to kiss your son good morning and your wife goodbye as you rushed out to the shop, trying to make a living, before trudging home with nothing to show after you’d paid the taxi fares and bought the milk for Klein Ben’s porridge …”

Rushing Modern Society Busy Life Old Ways Rituals

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“A new trunk had grown, covering the scar of the burn with thick new growth. Not hiding it, no, for the past could never be hidden, but embracing it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present formed one unified trunk that continued to shelter our people as we lived on in the shadows of the great Blue Mountains that had seen an eternity and stood ready to face another.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Hope Past And Present New Dreams

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“In beauty lies hidden pain; in pain, hidden freedom.”

Freedom Pain Quotes Beauty Of Life Pain And Beauty

Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories