Ingrid Pau

“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you’re not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“I need you," he said roughly. "Don't run away from me."
"How can you expect me not to run from you," said Alizeh, still trying to shake off her apprehension, "when you threatened just hours ago to have my eyes sewn shut?"
He looked sharply away from her then, a muscle jumping in his jaw. "I shouldn't have said that."
"And then you threw me off a cliff," she said, her voice a bit breathless even to her own ears.
"You wouldn't stop threatening to kill me," he said angrily, turning back to face her. "I was merely trying to change the subject.”
― Tahereh Mafi, These Infinite Threads

“Los recuerdos son como flechas. Silenciosos. Rápidos. Su efecto es fulminante. Devastador. Puedes mantenerlos alejados, olvidados en un rincón de tu mente, pero un día algo los activa de nuevo, las compuertas cerradas a cal y canto se abren y caen sobre ti, como un tsunami del pasado, capaces de arrastrarlo todo a tu paso.”
― Andrea Longarela, El faro de los amores dormidos