Andrea Romo

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Love, which is not pleasure but is also pleasure, happens in the body and through the body. Words cannot contain all that the gaze can hold, or the pressure of a particular touch, or the pain of knowing your child will grow old and die, and sometimes be young and die, and most times, be young and learn what it is to die. -Autumn Brown in 'The Work of Parenting”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

“Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Hey...if we keep doing this, just saying nothing, no matter what they do, think maybe we'll become things, too?”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven