Alejandra

“Qué haré ahora con mis labios sin su boca para llenarlos? ¿Qué haré de mis adoloridos labios?”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

“The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain.

And then, in smaller letters:

Forgive me.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Ese sueño que eres tú todavía dura. Durará siempre, porque siento como que estás dentro de mi sangre y pasas por mi corazón a cada rato.”
― Juan Rulfo, Cartas a Clara

“I am Cassandra—she who, without asking,
understood it all and still came to her fate,
I, Cassandra, full of visions,
who sees her own death without turning away,
and hears in the night the day that follows.”
― Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral