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1 " 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
2 " 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. "
3 " alternate universe where! daughters of immigrants / are not overwhelmed by all that they are / supposed to be... "
4 " you are afraid because it is the only way you know how to love. "
5 " am i born happy or are we just born. "
6 " we don't want to be the destinies our bodies carved out for us with knives passed down by generations of fathers & fathers "
7 " the loser of the war: has the best memory. / the winner: gets to forget. "
8 " 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 "
9 " All of my lovers, all of my friends. There is no song that belongs just to us. "
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva , Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
10 " 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... "
11 " my Spanish is wondering when my parents will be American / asks me if I'm white / yet "
12 " 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. "
13 " just started smokingjust started fuckingjust started getting really goodat lying to their mothers "
14 " our bodies have always made love to shame "
15 " remember your body/the body - a land of feelings we've been told to cut down/ "
16 " watch her kill/make love to/shame/herself "
17 " She tells me that’s just the way we do it—we look death in the face. She doesn’t know about the death industry. The money made from pumping a body full of pink liquid, how they peel a face off then back on, prick needles into the corners of eyes to make you look like you’re sleeping. "
18 " I wish I could watch a video of us watching a video of us. Your butt is so cute I could bite it. Your laugh is so adorable I could lock it in the basement and visit it on evenings and weekends. "
19 " Cuidate, okay? On to the next disaster. We will be watching you! Not to creep you out or anything. "
20 " Maybe I’m so used to speaking questions because I’m so used to being cut off. "
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva
