Esther

“Miriam thought her the most entitled white women she had met—uninteresting, her life so intertwined with that of her husband’s that she was no longer distinguishable as a woman.”
― Tara M. Stringfellow, Memphis

“Simonopio would never refute it: one should never contradict an act of love.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“All I do is fuck up. No one cares about who I really am.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact