Hellen Flennoy

“Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“You boys must always remember your roots, everything that makes you Puerto Rican. Don’t ever lose the stain of the plantain,” Isa said.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage