Emily Grace

“Let them take me or let them take my loved ones since all cemeteries one day end up as parks.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“We were living in a country being screened in slow motion and sometimes black and white, where the only things that weren't an uphill struggle were a smile, making love and dreaming. That's why we're always smiling here in Cuba, why we make love and dream all the time.”
― Karla Suárez, Havana Year Zero

“I love the story like I loved the dance studio, the bar, the hills surrounding the farmhouse. It's okay, I've learned, to love the things that make you, even if they are also the things that unmake you.”
― Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

“When you are small, so small that you believe things will stay the same forever, the world is a friendly place. That's what I thought when I recognized my childhood bench. This bench, or I should learn that nothing stays as it is, and yet it is still worthwhile being in the world. I am still learning that.”
― Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie