Juli Delgado Lopera

Fiebre Tropical

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  • María Pellicerhas quoted3 years ago
    Buenos días, mi reina. Immigrant criolla here reporting desde los Mayamis from our ant-infested townhouse.
  • Yaz Arreolahas quoted4 years ago
    With her emo ways Sylvia Plath was teaching me inglés, cachaco, teaching me that you can be brilliant and terribly alone
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    They pointed at your sadness to make theirs more secretive and therefore grander
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    Women in my family possessed a sixth sense, not necessarily from being mothers, but from the close policing of our sadness: your tristeza wasn’t yours, it was part of the larger collective Female Sadness jar to which we all contributed.
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    A pose passed down through the generations of Female Sadness stacked inside my bones, all the way back to Tata’s mother’s mother. A pose that says: I’m here suffering pero no no no I do not want your help; I want you to stand there and watch me suffer—witness what you have done—and let me suffer silently, with my discount glam.
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    Mami didn’t even understand ni pío of English and that threw her in the bottomest of the bottoms of the hierarchy.
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    The Eye: the ultimate authoritative wide-open flickering of lashes with an almost imperceptible tilt of the head that had us on our feet and running.
  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    The surrounding swamp collaborated with Mami to make every single day excruciating

    Ask Gibran

  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    think-of-it-as-moving-up-the-social-ladder!

    ¡pensar-que-es-como-mover-la-escalera-social!

  • Verónica Díazhas quoted4 years ago
    The heat is a stubborn bitch breathing its humid mouth on your every pore, reminding you this hell is inescapable, and in another language
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