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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández
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“Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“Before language, there is love. Before love, memory.”
Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“The bravest phrase a woman can say is “I don’t know.”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“We have…Settled into a region called “don’t ask don’t tell” and it is hard, i imagine for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of silence and how the absence of language can feel like a death”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“Nada es más vulnerable que las palabras que salen de nuestras bocas, porque nada tiene más poder.”
Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence of language can feel like a death. Often”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“By virtue of their English and the light color of their faces, these teachers determine the words that creep into my dreams at night. I envy them. I want what they have. I want my words to matter.”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
“If I could sum up the lives of people like me—people whose parents don’t write books, whose aunties and cousins don’t step onto college campuses except for the time we graduate—I would write our lives with that one phrase: and then, I turn the page. I”
Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir