Dusty

“The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.”
― Teresa de la Parra, Las memorias de Mamá Blanca

“She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.”
― Rabih Alameddine

“There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.”
― Rabih Alameddine

“In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.”
― Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House