Puma

“I don't want to impose a retrospective clarity of will on what had certainly been months immersed in a flailing muddle, but if there isn't some truth to the narratives of progress with which we sometimes try to frame our lives, however rooted in desperate delusion, we'd never be able to speak them, certainly not silently to ourselves, with any conviction.”
― Francisco Goldman, The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

“At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver”
― Cisneros Sandra

“Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.”
― Nina Marie Martínez, ¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card

“Often life doesn't make sense, and if Elvis had a motto it was that: life's a mess. That's probably why he loved music and factoids. They helped him construct a more organized world.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night