“Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“You're just an object locked up in the house.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
Souad
Born place: Palestinian Territory, Occupied
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