PaolaSahe

“it only occurred to me much later that the summer I was fourteen I had saved a life--not the life of a stranger as I had imagined--but the life I had taken for granted and which, in the years to come, I would take for granted again.”
― Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm

“Thank you for coming to save me.” She laughs, but it’s soft. “I didn’t save you. I can’t save anyone.” “You can. You did.” “I just hate that we hurt like this, you know?” “What do you mean?” She grabs my hand and squeezes. “I think about the things we’ve talked about in Empower. Articles we’ve read about all the girls who were thrown away by boys like they meant nothing. All the times a girl’s voice seemed to mean less than a boy’s. All the times the courts sent out a shit ruling on a rape case. It never really hit me, you know? I mean, it did, but not like this. I never thought it’d be my story. Or yours. I never wanted to let this be our story.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“No quiero que me quieras por querer, quiéreme sin saber por qué. No me regales basura disfrazada de amor, cuando tengas que irte, te regalo el adiós. No me regales costumbre con estabilidad, no te necesito para poder respirar.”
― Nacarid Portal Arráez, Amor a cuatro estaciones: El diario de una ilusión

“Even girls made of stars are captives, bound at the wrists and traded like property. Even girls made of stars aren't asked, aren't believed, aren't considered worth the effort unless they can offer something in return.
Even girls made of stars buy into those lies sometimes.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars