Caitlin Estrada

“Humans, especially the victors who hold the pen that writes the annals of history, have a penchant for erasing as much as documenting”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“...I'm left wondering if we are all just patchworks of the stories we've been told. What would it take - what does it take - for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having to fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been? Just because something is difficult to accept doesn't mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn't make that story true.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“The places where we were born are the shape of our lives, even when we are away from them.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire