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> [“I realised that, living in South Africa, most of us suffer not necessarily from post-traumatic but from pre-traumatic stress disorder. We analyse, prepare, hope. Not me, please. Until it happens to you. Living with the threat of crime hanging over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/i-realised-that-living-in-south-africa-most-of-us-suffer-not/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

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## More by Karina Szczurek

> [“I thought that now that he had seen me in all my brokenness and with all my demands, André would walk away. But he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/i-thought-that-now-that-he-had-seen-me-in-all-my-brokenness-and-with/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/fiction-is-the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-that-s-where-truth/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“André read me even when I was silent. He saw all of me, and he still wanted me. He thought I was beautiful. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/andr-read-me-even-when-i-was-silent-he-saw-all-of-me-and-he-still/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become illusion. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/the-correspondence-testifies-to-the-frailty-of-human-longings-to-the/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“I realised that, living in South Africa, most of us suffer not necessarily from post-traumatic but from pre-traumatic stress disorder. We analyse, prepare, hope.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/i-realised-that-living-in-south-africa-most-of-us-suffer-not/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“This is what I always said to André: you never know. You never know what the future may bring. I just knew that whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/this-is-what-i-always-said-to-andr-you-never-know-you-never-know-what/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“Verlange. The process feels like crossing a border on a one-way ticket, from a state of innocence, to one of irreconcilable knowledge. You are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/verlange-the-process-feels-like-crossing-a-border-on-a-one-way-ticket/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“I see the process of reaching out, sharing yourself, communicating, establishing contact between two people as similar to, if not the same as, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/i-see-the-process-of-reaching-out-sharing-yourself-communicating/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“For ten years he saw me. This is not a light or obvious observation. Most people do not see you. Many look, some even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/for-ten-years-he-saw-me-this-is-not-a-light-or-obvious-observation/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

> [“Another night, another day. Just the next breath; one more step. Tired. So terribly tired at the bottom of a merciless ocean.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karina-szczurek/another-night-another-day-just-the-next-breath-one-more-step-tired-so/)

[Karina Szczurek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karina-szczurek/)

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