Migdalia Jimenez

“To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a *place*, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Humans will be like decayed gentry. We'll have the glorious mansion called the past that is falling into disrepair. We'll have a piece of land that we didn't look after very well called the planet. And we'll have some nice clothes and a lot of stories. We'll be fading aristocracy. We'll be Blanche Dubois in a moth-eaten silk dress. We'll be Marie Antionette with no cake.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“And yet it is the language of our thoughts that tortures us more than any excess or deprivation of nature”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“I would never pull down a church! I adore churches. It is what happens inside them that I detest.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story