Captain Silvia

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Isn't it incredible that millions and millions of the world's children don't get to live life, but simply go through each day hoping to survive?”
― Carmen Aguirre

“You are up against the most awful moment in your life and your whole future depends on what you are going to do in the next hour, nothing less.
You've got to strike for your freedom and strike now for the moment may not come again.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House