“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”
“Libraries had zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protected us and kept us safe from all the bastards that never read a book for fun.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
“You said reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
“Truth be told, I sometimes even felt like I was better than them—getting a better education in my white-ass town, speaking perfect English. How messed up is that? They knew two languages and there I was thinking I was hot shit because I knew what an Oxford comma was. Hey, internalized racism. How you doing?”
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
“Actually…someday I’m hoping to write a book about a girl who looks like me.” What I mean is a book specifically about a fat Puerto Rican girl with glasses. I’ve never once read a story about one, and something about that has always made me feel devastatingly alone.”
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
“So no, we aren’t damaged. We have suffered from the brutality of an inherently violent system that favors maleness over womanhood. We’ve been victimized, but that doesn’t make us all victims.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
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