Elf

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

“Se nace creyendo que la gente, hasta que la vida nos va desmintiendo y nos demuestra que si, que hay gente buena, pero a su lado hay montones de gente muy mala, con malas intenciones, calculadora, solapada y malagradecida. Gente con el corazón diminuto, no como un mango sino como una guayabita verde, agria".”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, La oculta

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss