I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one,… - Edwidge Danticat

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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to. (p234)

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Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.

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I cringe from the heat of the night on my face. I feel as bare as open flesh. Tonight I am much older than the twenty-five years that I have lived. The night is the time I dread most in my life. Yet if I am to live, I must depend on it. (beginning of "Night Women")

All artists, writers among them, have several stories-one might call them creation myths-that haunt and obsess them.

The person she'd been when the three of them, she and her husband and her son, had gotten on that boat and left Haiti-that person was also lost at sea.

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