Marisol

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.”
― Louise Erdrich, LaRose

“One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World