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"She and her cousin might laugh at their mothers grasp on the old ways, but they also had to admit that fry women had flung themselves into new waters. They knew their own mettle because they had proven it to themselves more than once. Yadi only knew that her own mettle was anemia-ridden if she possessed one at all. She had been crushed time and time again by the weight of living."

"The heat of my body post-masturbation had cooked enough that I had to u shame myself. It was not my dead or the divine I believed in who were telling me I was dirty, and nasty for watching porn, for getting caught. It was my own little voice. The same little voice that had been reaching for pleasure with one hand and had been giving sharp slaps on the wrist with the other."

"People love to say New Yorkers are hard, mean, ambitious beyond what's normal. But I think it's just that we are surrounded by brick walls, so of course people are trying to claw their way up to some sort of sky."

"I cobbled together my own gift. Claimed magic where I'd be told none could exist. That is what dancing was for me. And it is as powerful as any second sight or inclination toward healing."

Also I like Ona's chapters most. And Tia Pastora.

Now I didn't know Camila, forgotten sister, would even get a chapter, chile

"Guilt was now added to the list of weights my heart carried."

"But although the prayers of my youth still slid easily off my tongue, they felt untethered from my heart."