Ivette Rodriguez berdote

“That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Everything good is somewhere else, baby. I’m telling you. Everything.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“They will make time to take some photos for Instagram, but will struggle to crack a smile as they think about all the work still to be done. They will drop barbed remarks about the weekend’s hitches, without proposing any solutions. They will drink at lunchtime, doze off in the sun, and wake up feeling foggy and sluggish, with a pounding head and too much to do. But then they will receive notifications of the first reviews, and all that weight will instantly lift. Three will have come in, all of them giving five stars. One will be by a woman with over three hundred thousand followers, who will have tagged them in a post praising, as per their agreement, the relaxed but impeccable welcome, the choice of natural wines, the simple, elegant decor—Mediterranean and yet unmistakably international. It’s all completely perfect, the story will say. It’s just like it is in the pictures.”
― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

“But maybe when the time comes, I will think that I am tired of being anybody’s girlie, and I will go somewhere nobody knows to call me “girlie,” or to ask me where my mummy is, or whether I even have a mummy, and they will instead ask me what my name is, and I will be able to choose a name and my own story, a story that I am making up by myself.”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories