Britt

“Deslenguadas. Somos las del español deficiente. We are your linguistic nightmare, your linguistic aberration, your linguistic mestisaje, the subject of your burla. Because we speak with tongues of fire we are culturally crucified. Racially, culturally and linguistically somos huérfanos —we speak an orphan tongue”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Maybe 'perfect' was just another word for belonging. For feeling like yourself. It didn't mean things weren't hard. It just meant they were right.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World