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“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Do work that matters. Vale la pena”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture.

Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza