Veronica

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“En ausencia a las relaciones humanas, formé vínculos con los personajes del papel. He vivido el amor y la pérdida a través de los artículos enlazados en la historia, experimenté la adolescencia por asociación. Mi mundo es una red entretejida de palabras, tendida de rama a rama, cada hueso con tendones, pensamientos e imágenes de todos los puntos. Soy un ser compuesto de letras, un personaje creado por sentencias, producto de la imaginación formado a través de la ficción.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me