Afilar, Adriana

🖤You got this. You deserve this. 🧿

[resqectable]

“But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater than my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.”

— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

[ousia-poetica]

[perfectfeelings]

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared by scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

[thepersonalquotes]

[ethereal-muses]

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

– Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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[perfectquote]

“The years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult.”

— Helen Mirren

[perfectfeelings]

“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.”

— Unknown

[perfectquote]

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, “Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with.” And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink―it’s gone.”

— Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly

[fepearl19]

So that’s why I married him

[mycosprite]

Inocybe sp.

[the-inspiring-quotes]

[seabeck]

Juvenile eagle

[ousia-poetica]

[fepearl19]

Missing axelito

[fepearl19]

Today I lay to rest the child that wasn’t ready to be fatherless and confused forever.

I lay to rest the teenager with the sore throat from screaming at God during all of her quiet moments.

I lay to rest with them:

The expectations they both had for me. And that of my mothers. And that of my fathers. And of both my countries hold on my self worth.

I present myself in one piece despite thinking I’d never have the honor to bring them all peace.

A.F.L 7/2/23

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[dialogues-in-my-mind]

[feral-ballad]

Idea Vilariño, tr. by Jesse Lee Kercheval, from Poemas de amor / Love Poems; "The Witness"

[Text: "I don't ask you for anything / don't accept anything from you. / It's enough that you are / in the world / that you know I am / in the world"]

[fepearl19]