Everyone Knows You Go Home

by Natalia Sylvester

We were all naive then. We all thought coming to this country changes everything, and maybe it does, but not in the way you expect.

But sometimes our best intentions become our worst mistakes.”

It always happened this way: hope and strength had to spring from somewhere.

Isabel was grateful that her husband understood true romance is about infusing small moments with simple bliss.

“Plans are just silly attempts to control the tricks of time.”

Grief is never really gone; it is just a darkness you eventually adjust to.