Jessica Echeverria

“Some days we can see Venus in midafternoon. Then at night, stars separated by billions of miles, light traveling years to die in the back of an eye.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“No, better. Stories. There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“There are those who are neither a man nor a woman. Those who were born and called the wrong gender and must reshape their story for those around them. But you. You’re something else. You’re whatever is safe. Both, maybe, but not neither. Or interchangeable. Names are funny things, because they can feel like lies but tell our truths.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!