Tina

“Spanish! His family didn't even like speaking Spanish to him. He tried, and they insisted on answering him in English. Though they knew perfectly well that he spoke Spanish as well as they did and better than their children did. Each side had something to prove, and none of them knew what it was.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“Even Ignatius Loyola wavered. That dark night of the soul, man. No one’s immune. It would all be meaningless if you didn’t wonder and doubt. That’s what makes it real. That’s what makes us people. God could have sent angels to flutter around like fairies, delivering rum punch and manna all day on a cosmic cruise ship. But what would that avail us?”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“I'm not a monster because I live in a world that gives me impossible choices.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water

“I know how it feels to be exhausted with yourself.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water