“Sometimes it's best to take things down and start all over again. It's the way of the world.”

“The world could be standing still, and we'd all be just as dizzy.”

“Being Mexican... means being there for each other. It's togetherness, like a familia. We should be helping one another, cheering our friends on.”

“You must remain pure of heart on this journey... Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.”

“And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be”

“Mrs. Moffat had taken her hand, for comfort, and they had sat there in silence for a while. Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again; but the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help, could make the world seem less broken.”

“¡Y yo me llamé la Diosa!”