Tessa

“When you spend your life dreading your future, you learn to welcome anything that makes you wait.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“We had told ourselves a lie for so long that we made it real. We trapped ourselves in a myth that we forgot we created.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“even now it remains hard for me to determine how I feel about the men who had sprung from me—what to do about my deep hatred, and my bottomless love, for them.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“I did not wake up and suddenly feel that I loved you. The only answer I can give you is that it happened gradually. Slowly, and unnoticed, the way the ocean turns rocks into sand. And you are an ocean, Hana. Gentle and quiet, yet powerful enough to sweep away any man or ship. I drowned in you a long time ago and I did not even know it.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon