Joss

“He’d heard people say talk was cheap, but that wasn’t true. Talk was magic, it turned the world, it was power when you knew how to fuse it with what mattered and pull your actions taut inside it like arrows.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The President and the Frog

“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one’s silences.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.”
― Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

“Can I miss people I’ve never met? Because I think I do.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter