Lea Hernandez

“I remember the feeling that she meant: the sense that men were alien, that if I were to foster any intimacy with a man it would be both despite and because of the fact that I could only be a body to him. And I had been right to be afraid. How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“Each time I went to see him I was really going into parts of myself that I hated and craved, so that I could watch myself make the mistakes that I feared and say, Isn't that who you really are?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tells us how we matter”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“Was she never divided, not even for a moment, between the parts of herself that she loved and the parts that scared her?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service