emily :)

“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

“I have inherited her name but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
-The house on Mango Street”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People