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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.
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.”
Love lost can be a painful thing—
“Family is the most important thing in this world. Sometimes, though, you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore.”
sometimes holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”
looked around the patio. It was filled with people I couldn’t imagine my life without. I didn’t want to think of ever not having my grandparents, my parents, my sisters, my cousins, or anyone else around. Where would I go on the weekends if my parents weren’t around? Where would I spend Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter if my grandparents were gone? Who would I talk to about everything and anything if my sister wasn’t just a phone call away?
My family included some of the nosiest, most frustrating, most meddling people around. But I loved every single one of them.
Through the windows of my abuela’s enclosed patio, I saw the faces of the people I loved most in this world. I smiled at the sound of their laughter and their voices each trying to talk over one another.
