Collette

“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.”
― Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love

“So leave. What does it matter. Everyone leaves. It is not the big story in the end.”
― Lauren Groff, Florida

“He’d get lost if he tried to find his way back to New York from her neighborhood. Brooklyn was tricky that way. You had to live there in order to find your way about.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn