Diandra De Lima

“I have spent my life in a painstaking effort to tell about things as they are to me, so that they will not sound like autobiography but simply like notes, like factual reports.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Sister Age

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Creo que el mundo es bello
que la poesía es como el pan, de todos.

I believe the world is beautiful
and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone”
― Roque Dalton

“The stove, the bins, the cupboards, I had learned forever, make an inviolable throne room. From them I ruled; temporarily I controlled. I felt powerful, and I loved that feeling.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me