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“Because that was life. That was good and bad. Nothing was simple or straightforward. Nothing was black and white. Everything was a mix. Everything had its own story.”
― Hailey Alcaraz, Rosa by Any Other Name

“Mamá called it stubbornness, my tutors thought it a flaw. But I named it what it was: persistence.”
― Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows

“was having a hard time keeping my heart in line with my mind. Silly, foolish thing.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Where the Library Hides

“There was, she admitted, something wonderful about this. Storytelling was a fundamental impulse of humanity, as natural to the mind and body as eating and sleeping and falling in love. It made sense that everyone believed they could do it, because everyone who had ever been comforted by a story, or loved a character, or lived within a world of imagination, held a story world inside them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black