Anny Caba > Quotes

“¿Te has ahogado?” “En agua, no. Pero en la vida, sí.”
― Anny Caba, Mamey: a Spanglish novel

“No te pareces con todos los picados.” He pointed to her mosquito bites and laughed. It had only been three days, and they had already covered her. Her mother liked to say the mosquitoes branded her body as having “sangre dulce.”
― Anny Caba, Mamey: a Spanglish novel

“Mejor así! ¡Calladita te ves más bonita!”
― Anny Caba, Mamey: a Spanglish novel

“Needless to say, it left a bad taste in her mouth. Now, religion felt like a childhood friend that she grew apart from but still ran into on special occasions.”
― Anny Caba, Mamey: a Spanglish novel