Good Girl and Other Yearnings Quotes

“When you opened the window
of your hands, revealing the praying mantis
not praying, clawing at the air, its tiny beast mouth.”
― Isabelle Correa, Good Girl and Other Yearnings

“We are not built
to check emails
more often
than we walk
barefoot on the Earth
but I do it anyway.
I pour the tea
and leave it untouched
for 2 nights,
I bite my own hand, the hand
that feeds me.”
― Isabelle Correa, Good Girl and Other Yearnings

“...I understand the obligation of dreams
and wandering hope-broke in vast fields
wishing you were more than you are....”
― Isabelle Correa, Good Girl and Other Yearnings