Aly

“Wouldn’t any person—no matter how self-assured they are—experience legitimate feelings of estrangement in the same situation, when confronted by social systems that disadvantage them and favor the privileged and connected individuals who control them?”
― Alejandra Campoverdi, First Gen: A Memoir

“Vulnerability can transform emotional pain into connection.”
― 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