Ruthier Rivera

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that I am reading. You're every poem I've ever loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurts so much?"
"If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”
― Maria Montessori