Maria

“And maybe I’m romanticizing some of these women I saw peripherally, but fuck it. I am in love with us, and I want a flowery, beautiful book about us that does not pull any punches and jabs hardest at those who have harmed us.”
― Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

“Because that's all art is, in the end.
One person trying to geth another person they have never met to fall in love with them.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“An underwhelming breakup. No affair; no big, blowout moment. Just a series of small fires that we let burn out around us, clutching our coffees like the dog from the internet: this is fine.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“What propelled me from place to place was a fundamental truth about dogs: people love them. That fundamental truth is actually a number of other truths rolled into one. People love them because they need them, and they need them because dogs are intimately connected to people's ideas about themselves. They make people better and stronger, at once more serious and sillier, in touch with their better natures.”
― Elias Weiss Friedman, This Dog Will Change Your Life