Jillian

“In the beginning, we were in love. Yo smiles.
That was a good beginning. He came to my door. I opened it.”
― Julia E. Alvarez

“She recognizes the unmistakable signs of a flashback: a woman at a window, a woman with a past, with memory and desire and wreckage in her heart. She will let herself have them today. She can't help herself anyway.”
― Julia E. Alvarez

“It took three weeks for that set of bruises to disappear. Like any scar, they told a story. They embarrassed me, but I was sorry to see them fade.”
― Maureen Gibbon, Swimming Sweet Arrow

“Because he accused her of eating her own head by thinking so much about what people said. Because he believed in the Real World, more than words, more than he believed in her.”
― Julia E. Alvarez