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“Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”
― Eva Rice, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Without a mother, was I still a daughter?”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“There wasn't a map for navigating people.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“All my life, the presence of my chorus - all those voices - had reminded me that I wasn't alone and couldn't possibly be lonely.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“With the right information, the right data, anyplace can be mapped. Even a birthplace.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“I was half and half: half Moore, half Colombian; half an orphan, half an only child; half a practical cartographer, half a dreamer wondering what if.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“I never played bride or dressed up in veils. I preferred pencils and rulers, marking out the boundaries of my world.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“Doña Rojas moved with grace in her shapeless dress and her wrinkles were wondrous lines that mapped a life lived.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

“Maps are reassuring in their consistency and honesty. They contain truth, and I was about to find my truth, my past.”
― Anika Fajardo, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore