Laura

“Love to me was honesty. Being real. Knowing someone’s best and worst. Love was a push that said someone believed in you when you didn’t.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“My grandma had told me once you couldn’t make someone love you or even like you, but you could sure as hell make someone put up with you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“But my mom had told me once that regret was worse than fear.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love