Brandy

“I was to be great, but I was to do it modestly. “Está bien, Mama,” I replied. “I’ll be the best.” I couldn’t have imagined all the ways her belief would continually empower me, and all the ways the pressure of that belief would eventually debilitate me.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“And if U.S. history has taught us anything, a police officer’s “discretion” is”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“that there are seasons of lack and plenty, of drought and flooding.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River