Calila Vilas

“a girl comes of age against the knife, Betty, but the woman she becomes must decide if the blade will cut deep enough to rip her apart or if she will find the strength to leap with her arms out and dare herself to fly the world that seems to break like glass around her.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
― Paulo Freire

“From there, according to the map, a road should have taken her into the mountains, but the asphalt soon gave way to dirt, dead-ending at a long driveway flanked by those twin heralds of American hospitality, Private Property and Beware of Dog.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“No one can see my neuroses except me. The way I see myself is not how other people see me. Everything is okay. I belong here.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband