eva ₊˚⊹♡

“It was my first time seeing white people dance outside of television and for what it’s worth I thought it was very brave.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“What we had wasn’t romantic, but it was urgent and possessive and full of ups and downs. If we had been married, we would have had so many vow renewals.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“Professor Sandoval was Harvard’s first Latina tenured professor and an absolute star on campus. Her hair was shiny, curly, and black. Her skin was a deep warm brown and she had the tiniest, sparkliest diamond in her nose. One of the most iconic things about Ruby Sandoval is that she wore leather pants, and often. Nothing about it was vulgar, they looked as demure as a pair of Anne Taylor slacks but they were decidedly not Anne Taylor slacks. She was a Latina with a full professorship and she wore perfectly tailored Italian leather pants. It said something. She wasn’t here to lie low.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“Anyway, another thing that kept me from reading the book is that Nathaniel told me to read it and I do not like it when boys tell me what to read.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina