Nathaly Alvarez Jimenez

“your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I don't want to imagine those things. Anyone can imagine things like that. I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forest thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors. I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other. I dream about people who would only kiss you in the cheek.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“they have no idea what it is like to lose home at the risk of never finding home again to have your entire life split between two lands and become the bridge between two countries - immigrant”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers