peluda Quotes

“if you ask me if i am fluent / i will tell you my Spanish is understanding that there are stories / that will always be out of my reach / there are people / who will never fit together the way that i wanted them to / there are letters / that will always stay / silent / there are some words that will always escape / me.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“a plot hole is there for us, whenever we aren't looking, for us to fall in and claw at the dark”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“you are afraid because it is the only way you know how to love.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“alternate universe where! daughters of immigrants / are not overwhelmed by all that they are / supposed to be...”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“we don't want to be the destinies our bodies carved out for us with knives passed down by generations of fathers & fathers”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“am i born happy or are we just born.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“you, not riot grrrl, but rolling all of your R’s. less betty paige, more betty la fea. less zoey deschanel, more chilindrina. not trying to be more white—just more loved. just trying to find a song that is about the girl who is always fixing, snipping away at the bits of herself that are always becoming”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“if you ask me if i am fluent in Spanish i will tell you my Spanish is an itchy phantom / limb--reaching for words & only finding air”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“the loser of the war: has the best memory. / the winner: gets to forget.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“my Spanish is wondering when my parents will be American / asks me if I'm white / yet”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“if you don't understand the joke then perfecting / your american laugh if not catching / the reference then writing it down to google it / later...”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“The women in my family are bitches.
Cranky bitches.
Stuck up bitches.
Customer service turned sour bitches.
Can I help you? bitches.
Next in line bitches.
I like this purse 'cause it makes me look mean bitches.
Can you take a picture of my outfit
full length,
get the heels in bitches.
I always wear heels to la fiesta
I never take them off bitches.
All men will kill you bitches.
All men will leave you anyway, bitches.
You better text me when you get home okay bitches.
Pray before the baby comes bitches.
Pray before the plane takes off bitches.
She has my eyes, my big mouth and my fight, bitches.
Sing to the scabs on her knees when she falls down bitches.
It's okay not to be liked bitches.
Give abuelita bendiciones bitches.
The vengeful, violent,
pissed,
prissed,
and polished.
Lipstick stained on an envelope,
I'll be damned if I'm compliant bitches.
The what did you call to us? What did you say to us? What's that kind of love called again?
Bitches.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“i am too busy imagining another Boy, what's his name--that guy who plays the Blond Jock in all of the 90s movies, that guy, yeah. i love him because that is what it says i should do in the script & i follow the script.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“[...] niñita lotioning up stretch marks
that don't have memories yet.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“just started smoking
just started fucking
just started getting really good
at lying to their mothers”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“watch her kill/make love to/shame/herself”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“remember your body/the body - a land of feelings we've been told to cut down/”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda

“our bodies have always made love to shame”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, peluda