Paul Mena

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
― Mark Twain

“To live is to war with trolls.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“There are days when I feel I am becoming good at what I do. And then I wonder, what does it mean to be good at this?”
― Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border

“You spent nearly four years on the border, she said. You weren’t just observing a reality, you were participating in it. You can’t exist within a system for that long without being implicated, without absorbing its poison. And let me tell you, it isn’t something that’s just going to slowly go away. It’s part of who you’ve become. So what will you do? All you can do is try to find a place to hold it, a way to not lose some purpose for it all.”
― Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border