Empty shell Quote by Raquel Cepeda

“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the day’s light, her breasts like sunsets trapped beneath…

— Junot Díaz

“At night, before she went to sleep in her cabin down in the quarters, she remembered Mawu’s story and told herself that she was…

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

“One woman is as dark as night. A white wrap covers her head, and a cigar is clenched between her strong, white teeth. My…

— Zoraida Córdova

“It isn’t comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep…

— Thomas Moore

“The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of her…

— Sylvia Plath

“Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without…

— Khaled Hosseini

“As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty, See the bent head…

— Walt Whitman

“She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belonged to no one…

— Nikki Rowe

“She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in…

— Paul Valéry

“I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I…

— Oscar Wilde

“Something, or someone, uncurled deep within her soul. A woman she barely recognized, who knew how to take what she wanted and asked for…

— Emma Hamm

“Saw for a brief instant La Inca praying in her room - the silence that lay between them now, stronger than love - and…

— Junot Díaz