I'm Ana Paula Pérez—an English teacher-in-training, artist, and eternal book lover who feels stories as deeply as lived experiences. This digital space was born from my encounter with The Mill on the Floss, a novel that mirrored my own struggles between emotion and expectation.
Like Maggie Tulliver, I've navigated the currents of being "too much"—too passionate, too questioning, too unwilling to fit neatly into prescribed boxes. This project is my riverbank, where I've paused to make sense of the waters that carry us all.
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Because Maggie's voice echoes in the chambers of every woman who's been told she's "too much." Because literature is the safest space I know to be gloriously, unapologetically complex. Because sometimes creating is the only way to breathe through the emotions a story awakens.
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
— George Eliot