Diana

“Traigo los ojos con que ella miró estas cosas, porque me dio sus ojos para ver:”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

“How you imagine something will be is always worse than how it actually ends up being,”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Something was growing inside me, alien, uninvited, and it felt like an infestation.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora