63 Quotes by Elizabeth Acevedo

I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.

I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life.It has brought me the most light.And isn't that what a poem is?A lantern glowing in the dark.

Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine.

Pero, tú no eres fácil.”You sure ain’t an easy one.

Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them. It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.

Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent.

Your silence furnishes a dark house. But even at the risk of burning,the moth always seeks the light.

you are dark and always been beautiful: like the night, like a star after it bursts, like obsidian & onyx & jet precious.But I know I am beautiful like all & none of those things: far in the sky and deep in the earthI am beautiful like a dark skinned girl that is right here.

Mami still had an air around Papi,like he was a medicine she knew she neededeven as she cringed at the taste.