Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)

by Zoraida Córdova

But we aren’t like normal families. Our monsters are real. Sometimes we are the monsters.

It’s always nice when your older male relatives tell you how great it is to be a woman now, like I was an androgynous experiment before.

“Why is it always blood?” “Blood is life, Alex.” For beings that don’t bleed, the gods sure ask for a lot of it, I think.

“All lands change for the worse when the people do not fight back. Now there is nothing left.”

“Death is the most sure but unexpected part about life. It’s almost up there with love. It’s bound to happen, but how and when—now that’s the tricky part.”