Mia Alvarez

“She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgement, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous