“ If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground. Raquel Cepeda
“ Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. Raquel Cepeda
“ For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. Raquel Cepeda
“ The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness. Raquel Cepeda
“ Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well. Raquel Cepeda
“ We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths. Raquel Cepeda
“ Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like. Raquel Cepeda
“ Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man. Raquel Cepeda
“ This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. Raquel Cepeda
“ 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 wa… Raquel Cepeda
“ Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me how to be the mother and father I never had. I’ll make a mess of things sometimes, and I’m sor… Raquel Cepeda
“ The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences. Raquel Cepeda
“ Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America? Raquel Cepeda
“ 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… Raquel Cepeda
