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

“I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
― Cisneros, Sandra