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Welita had said that if she’d cried in front of her, then the woman would have known the power she’d had over her. She’d always told us that people who hurt us don’t deserve our tears.
Not because I wasn’t proud of my Mexican heritage. Sometimes I was just too tired to defend it. Even in the first grade, I learned it was much easier if you didn’t talk with an accent and didn’t bring egg burritos to school for lunch.
As a kid, I was ashamed about not being white enough. But as an adult, I was ashamed for not being Mexican enough. In fact, I was so not Mexican that a privileged white racist asshole felt comfortable enough to date me.
When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”
A gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love. The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation. Well, for me, I’d rather have the love.”
“Of course,” she said softly. “Family is the most important thing in this world. Sometimes, though, you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore.”
holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”
Sometimes, you find the strength to do what scares you most if you believe your life will be better because of it.”
Holding on to the past doesn’t always help you in the future.” A realization struck me so hard that I gasped.
