Cynthia > Cynthia's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Was your kindness smothered in cruelty?”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“Chicago was plagued with hundreds and hundreds of unsolved murders and missing persons cases. Lauren knew this was her purgatory, her reason for living to find them and set this right.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“The Robber Bridegroom,” “The Crows,” “The Willful Child,” and “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn How to Shudder.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“Borinquen — the name originally given to it by the indigenous Tainos before Christopher Columbus came and took everything, including their name, away.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“Parents of children with disabilities live in this constant elevated state of anxiety, sometimes even teetering between despair and dread. We know our children have this beaming innocence within them, but because of that they sometimes misinterpret human intention.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“Performing magic behind a cloud on a breathless night confident you'll discover its indiscretion”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Poems of My Night

“A child shouldn’t be afraid to utter a word in their own house, for fear it would be met with mocking, resistance, a belt, a hand yanking hair, followed by a closed fist across the face.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“It’s woven into the brilliant fabric of who he is, and if someone cannot accept that, then they cannot accept him and do not need to be in our lives.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“Art is subjective and everyone should be allowed to like the creations they enjoy, while not having to feel pressured by another’s preferences.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“He does this often, echolalia, the repetition of sounds, words, phrases, or full sentences. Echolalia is just one of the many characteristics that sets Bela apart from the other children.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“At the entrance of the gardens, Lauren approached the two large bronze buffalos, replicas of buffalo statues that were displayed during the World’s Columbian Exhibition in 1893. The event was meant to celebrate Columbus’ arrival in the New World in 1492. The fair was so spectacular that people still talk about it today, the fourteen great buildings constructed by famous architects. There were fairgrounds of wonder and mystery, science and invention, but almost all of it was temporary, temporary buildings, canals and lagoons. Over twenty-seven million people visited Chicago in those six months during the fair and took with them to their small rural towns, cities across America and country’s far away the stories of a great city on a prairie, a great people, and all of the magic that lives there.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago