"I grew up believing that I belonged to a family of birds. When your family comes from Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Peru—the border is not a desert or a river but the entire sky" - Daisy hernandez

"I started crying,...the floodgates opened....That white space was a key hole which unlocked pent-up emotions. When I consciously and intentionally decided to stay and write in the cutout space, it gave me access to all these things I didn’t yet know how to engage with." -Diana Khoi Nguyen

"if the dream is to go beyond empire if the dream is to stretch our extremities all the way thru" - Lucas de Lima

"I want to plant a novel! ...to grow a fictional garden that you can read. I don’t know what that means: Bury books and see if they grow? I just love this idea that you buy a book and it has a seed in the pages." -Nelly Rosario with Emily Raboteau asterixjournal.com/imagining-th...