Mariana

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“The goal is that everyone should get to turn on the TV and see someone who looks like them and loves like them. And just as important, everyone should turn on the TV and see someone who doesn’t look like them and love like them. Because perhaps then they will learn from them. Perhaps then they will not isolate them. Marginalize them. Erase them. Perhaps they will even come to recognize themselves in them. Perhaps they will even learn to love them.

I think that when you turn on the television and you see love, from anyone, with anyone, to anyone—real love—a service has been done for you. Your heart has somehow been expanded, your mind has somehow grown. Your soul has been opened a little more. You’ve experienced something. The very idea that love exists, that it is possible, that one can have a “person”. . . You are not alone.

Hate diminishes, love expands.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes

“We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided