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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

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So many things happen in thirty years. Death happens, above all. It doesn’t stop happening. The deaths of thousands and thousands of women. Their corpses here, around us, barely touching the floor as they linger shoulder to shoulder with ...more

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Alicia’s Quotes

“Yet you still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and must never suffer the indignity of actually still existing. Of being real. Of having flaws. Of breaking and deteriorating. Only the things you no longer have will always be perfect.”
― Iain Thomas

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