Lissette

“Just because your father’s present doesn’t mean he isn’t absent.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I had a moment before I ended it. I remember asking myself what I would regret more. Ending something that was good so I didn’t end up with regrets? Or spending the rest of my life regretting that I didn’t have the courage to end something simply because I was afraid of regret?”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Now

“my heart is one of Darwin’s finches learning to fly.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“There was something about Nico that Eloise had felt early on—this sense that they were a team, a unit, no matter what. She knew Nico would always be there. To catch her, to comfort her, to celebrate her. And, for nearly a decade, he’d only strengthened that perception. He was always on her side, Eloise thought. Always.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide