Alejandra

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“She couldn't help it that she felt the suffering of others-kin and strangers, creatures that speak and creatures that can't speak-inside herself, as though the membrane separating her body from the world was thin and porous.”
― Nancy Kricorian, The Burning Heart of the World

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water