“Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.”
― The Moon and More
― The Moon and More
“I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!”
― Himself
― Himself
“In my family strange is relative.”
― Falling Is Like This
― Falling Is Like This
“I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.”
― The Shape of Desire
― The Shape of Desire
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