Gabby Rivera Quotes

You can't just go punching a bunch of kids in the face. Remember, you were once that kid looking for someone, anyone to connect to. That's still you.

How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people.

When boys talked, it sounded like feral dogs barking. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down.

Reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.

Seriously, some of my best friends are libraries.

(...)my mom was the gravitational pull that kept me stuck to this Earth

I'm going to love you without being in love with you.

Who needs a girlfriend when you have abandonment issues and super-powers?

We lived loud and hard against a neighborhood built to contain us. We moved like the earth pushing its way through cement sidewalks.

The world is filled with enough room to flee at any moment. In

I wanted her to change my world."
"Mi amor, only you can change your world.

You will meet people who'll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm.

Get a little hysterical, Juliet. I mean that's why vibrators were invented, right?

I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.