“When she'd met Orquídea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream.”
― The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
― The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
“the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue.”
― Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
― Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
“Soon after our father arrived we went to a party in our old neighborhood and introduced him to our friends from the basement days. When a cumbia came on, he asked our mother to dance, and we watched our parents sway, finding each other’s rhythm as if they’d never fallen out of step, as if the past fifteen years were only a dance interrupted waiting for the next song to play. I wondered about the matrix of separation and dislocation, our years bound to the phantom pain of a lost homeland, because now that we are together again that particular hurt and sensation that something is missing has faded. And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they’re just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”
― Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
― Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
“This, with the kid gloves of gentility white libs always use when they want to make your annoyance feel unreasonable. The flop-sweating jargon invoked to signal their literacy on the subject of your existence. That fart holding wince when they sense their good intentions going unrewarded.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
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