Andreina Hernández

“Annotations means to make your thoughts visible and tangible; to make them real. To connect your thoughts and your words to the words of the author and to kind of relate your own experience as a human being to what the author has written”.

I think the scariest part of growing older is realizing how easy it is to disappear without anyone noticing. You stop showing up to things, you stop answering messages, and life still goes on without you. The world doesn’t pause, people don’t wait, and that realization is both freeing and heartbreaking at the same time

“ To be part of the experience of reading, I have to give a part of myself to the book. I annotate to understand the book of course and understand the world in which the book is being written in but also to mainly understand myself and how I relate to it . It’s a way of seeing the things that you align with in text and the things you disagree with;... See more

that in the ordinary way we lose because we’re loved, and give more or less what we’re given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I’d once taken it to be. To give love without receiving it is to understand we are made in the image of God — because the love of God is immense and indiscriminate... See more