Where Sleeping Girls Lie Quotes

“That was the problem with love. It created blind spots in your mind. Bloodred flags were blocked out by high levels of dopamine and the trick of a gentlemanly smile.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Of course I do. What do you guys want to be when you’re older?” “I do not dream of labor,” Baz said.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Sometimes justice looked like this: it wasn’t fair, and it wasn’t just. But it was something. A start.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Shrek; that movie always makes life feel less like shit”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“The counselor had said that was what trauma could do. It got stuck and replayed memories on a loop sometimes in our minds and other times in our bodies. And it didn't mean Sade was broken or weak, it just meant that she carried an experience that shaped who she was now. She would learn to how to live, in spite of it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“So, just act normal and we wait to see what information comes.'
Sade wasn't sure she knew what normal was anymore. Her normal looked very different depending on the day. Sometimes her normal involved constant panic attacks throughout the day, Sometimes it was low moods and a lack of energy, and other times her normal was feeling haunted by the dead.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Where Sleeping Girls Lie, I write to young girls who feel so much anger, and need desperately for someone or something to tell them their rage is important, and that the capacity to heal from deep wounds is not at all impossible.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Keep swimming. Or if that’s too hard, at the very least, float.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“The artist, Madame Alarie, wife to the abusive alcoholic Monsieur Alarie, decided one day that she’d had enough of his bullshit and poisoned his dinner,”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Ms. Thistle was like a ray of sunshine; everything she did and said could trigger light in even the darkest of places.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Sade was used to luxury, so she knew that wealth came with an abundance of secrets.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“The clouds looked dark and heavy, much like her soul, ready to pour all its wet, icy contents onto the school grounds.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie