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

“We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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