Chantel Acevedo > Quotes

“By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.”
― Chantel Acevedo

“I've seen it before, what mothers and daughters can do to one another during those terrible adolescent years. Grief must be at the bottom of it, for what is sadder for a parent than seeing her daughter shedding girlhood drop by precious drop? And what is more terrifying for a child than to doubt her mother, to begin to see her as a human with faults instead of as a goddess?”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I've learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one's head.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, "Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“I’m moving in with y’all!” shouted Pop-Pop. He was holding a box of his stuff! “What?” I exclaimed. Mom greeted him, saying, “Daddy! You really want to move in with us?”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“moment”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“Ours was a typical grief, and yet I say it without believing it. When death becomes personal, then there is nothing typical about it.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Living Infinite

“The girl’s hand was suddenly in mine again,”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“How hard it is to hate a person you've once loved.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“Perhaps she is right, that there is no reason to suffering, no fair dealing when it comes to meting out bliss and pain. There are just choices, and the echoes of those choices.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“loved”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“Mayito began to cry, and it was if my soul had grown a small voice separate from my body.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away.”
― Chantel Acevedo, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

“Of course you can go on. It's what we do. We go on. Learn how to live with the suffering we're dealt.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“When you read between the lines, you understand more than just what the words mean. You understand what the author was trying to really say.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“for”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Curse on Spectacle Key

“Thank you for grieving with me. Your tears made me feel as if my own were worth shedding.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Living Infinite

“Grief. It doesn’t go away entirely.
Some days, you think you’ve forgotten that you’ve lost someone important, and other days, it’s all you can think about. It comes and goes, like a wave. If you’re loved, and if you love, grief is a thing you’ll experience eventually. It means you’re human, Callie”
― Chantel Acevedo, Muse Squad: The Mystery of the Tenth: The Middle Grade Fantasy Sequel About a Cuban American Girl, Greek Muses, and Fate for Kids