Michelle

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“You can not stop you from being who you are.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Don Jacinto did not reply; perhaps he understood that there was no measure for love of country except in sacrifice, and why ask the poor for more sacrifices? It was the comfortable, the rich like himself--although Istak did not put it this way--who should express it with their wealth. The poor had only their lives to give.
-Istak”
― F. Sionil José, Dusk