Clara YM

“Los indios han padecido y padecen - síntesis del drama de toda América Latina- la maldición de su propia riqueza.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“A small smile transformed his normally hardened features and he took my hand and ran it across his ribs. "Are they all there?"
I frowned. "What?"
"My ribs. Is there one missin'?
My hand smoothed up and down his sides. "Okay, I think you've lost it. You think you're missing a rib?"
He exhaled a quiet laugh. "Just thought God took one of mine when he made you.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“I never knew before tonight what it felt like to be wanted… just me for me.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“Loving someone doesn't ever completely go away.”
― Cristin Terrill, All Our Yesterdays