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Elizabeth Acevedo

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  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    A truth
    you did not want
    to know
    can rot & grow mold
    in the pit
    of your stomach,
    can sour
    every taste
    you’ve ever had,
    can cast a stench
    so bad you forget
    you’ve ever known
    a sweet thing.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Just let yourself mourn, sweetie.
    You can’t run from what hurts you,
    or like a dog smelling fear,
    that grief will just keep chasing with ever-sharp teeth.”
  • Willowhas quoted8 months ago
    “Just let yourself mourn, sweetie.
    You can’t run from what hurts you,
    or like a dog smelling fear,
    that grief will just keep chasing with ever-sharp teeth.”
  • Willowhas quoted8 months ago
    You do not let your words stunt unknown possibilities.
  • Willowhas quoted8 months ago
    Here, despite the bad & ugly,
    is my home. & now I wish that I could stay. Does anyone ever
    want to leave the place they love?
  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    Here, despite the bad & ugly,
    is my home. & now I wish that I could stay. Does anyone ever
    want to leave the place they love
  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    people come up to us to pay their respects.
    Such a funny phrase, pay respects.
    As if suffering is a debt that can be eased
    by a hug & a head nod.
    I have no need for this currency of people’s respect:
  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    But me, I know a man can have many faces & speak out of
    both sides of his mouth; I know a man can make decisions
    based on the flip of a coin;
    a man can be real good at long division,
    give away piece after piece after piece of himself
  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    A lot of people don’t finish school
    or follow their dreams. That fairy-tale plotline is for
    telenovelas.
  • Eugeniahas quoted2 years ago
    think I hate this sister.
    She messages me
    that she has acquired a plane ticket.
    & how easy she says it.
    Because it wasn’t endless paperwork,
    because no one wondered if she would
    want to overstay her visa.
    The years my father tried
    to get me to the States,
    & that girl over there fills out a short form,
    is granted permission, given a blue book—
    shit, an entire welcome mat to the world.
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