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“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Your silence furnishes a dark house.
But even at the risk of burning,
the moth always seeks the light.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X