Sandra Del Rio

“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off to a sanatorium. I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for, though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so badly they take you away from the known world for wanting it?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it's ugly and distorted; you've become a scorned, unwanted creature.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

“But maybe people should be kind without reason.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country