Sage Sloth

“You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.”
― Raquel Cepeda, 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.”
― Raquel Cepeda, 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.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Women destroy me. I allow them to.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina