“You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don’t understand how that kind of hair can be good. It doesn’t move at all, or ripple like the water in Boca Chica when I throw shells at it.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers is her own self. I can see Mami’s soul desperately trying to find its way back into her small body.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Women destroy me. I allow them to.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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