Aly

“The Trailblazer Toll is the emotional cost of social and economic mobility. It’s the tax we pay to become the proverbial bridge.”
― Alejandra Campoverdi, First Gen: A Memoir

“It is a beautiful thing to be a First and Only, the one who disrupts deep-rooted generational patterns to become our ancestors’ wildest dreams. And it also comes at a price.”
― Alejandra Campoverdi, First Gen: A Memoir

“To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balance of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you’re going.”
― Alejandra Campoverdi, First Gen: A Memoir

“She could empathize with this, for grief was not only made up of sadness, but of so much more: yearning to hear a voice that was now forever vanished.”
― Sarah Penner, The London Séance Society