Aya de León > Quotes

“Just because someone’s life looks prosperous and shiny on the outside doesn’t mean that it looks good on the inside.”
― Aya de León, Undercover Latina

“it wasn’t my fault that I grew up believing those things. And now that I was grown, it was my responsibility to unlearn them.”
― Aya de León, Undercover Latina

“Then they refine it and ship it all the way back. And they don’t use renewable fuels for all that shipping.”
― Aya de León, A Spy in the Struggle

“The fireworks show was beautiful. I knew they were terrible for the environment, but I didn’t let that knowledge spoil the dazzle of the lights and colors.”
― Aya de León, Undercover Latina

“The solutions have been clear for years: keep these fossil fuels in the ground. Transition into clean energy like solar power, wind power, consume less, and stop destroying the trees and mangrove swamps and wetlands and other natural ways the earth already has of getting carbon emissions out of the air.”
― Aya de León, A Spy in the Struggle

“Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon,
and the truth. —Buddha”
― Aya de León, A Spy in the Struggle