Annays Mora

“I don't know why people think permanent denial is better than temporary disappointment.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“That’s the thing about death—even when you think someone is gone, glimpses of them remain in those they loved and left behind.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“To be Cuban is to be proud—it is both our greatest gift and our biggest curse. We serve no kings, bow no heads, bear our troubles on our backs as though they are nothing at all. There is an art to this, you see. An art to appearing as though everything is effortless, that your world is a gilded one, when the reality is that your knees beneath your silk gown buckle from the weight of it all. We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana