The Distance Between Us Quotes

“And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us

“We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us

“Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us

“But then Mago touched my belly button and added something to the story my mother had never told me. She said that my umbilical cord was like a ribbon that connected me to Mami. She said, "It doesn't matter that there's a distance between us now. That cord is there forever.”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” —CARL SANDBURG”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us