Once Upon a Quinceañera Quotes

“Honestly...welcome to the world the rest of us live in, where we're trying our best and still end up just mostly OK, and somehow manage to get up in the morning in spite of that.”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera: An Empowering YA Romance About Latina Family, Summer Love, and Second Chances

“The truth is scarier than any lie.”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera: An Empowering YA Romance About Latina Family, Summer Love, and Second Chances

“know I sound maudlin, but I am fucking maudlin, because I hate that I wasn’t enough for you to take the risk, and I hate that you broke my fucking heart. I hate that I’ll always know what this felt like, and know that I had to let it go too soon. I hate that you are probably right—I do lie when it makes my life easier . . . so this is how you should know this is the truth, because none of this makes my life easier”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“Mauro sat silent for a moment, and then said, “I’m sorry that me doing something nice for you made such a mess.” More silence. “I feel like we’ve been here before. At least this time I actually did the thing.” I touched his shoulder, for just a moment. “It was perfect. None of this is your fault.”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“When the hell had my life become a bad telenovela?”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“It was like those stores in Harry Potter, where you couldn’t tell the magic that lived inside.”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“Alex’s face swam into my mind. Big brown eyes framed by eyelashes any chica would kill for. A dimple that teased his left cheek. Straight black hair that flopped into his eyes. Sweetness .”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“Is this the way it’s going to be this whole summer? You being a bitch to me and me just having to suck it up because Mami and Tía Mira want this so badly?”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera

“That I was a fame whore, hooking up with Mauro because of his famous father. And the worst crime of all—that I was stupid, because I’d actually trusted that Mauro wasn’t running a game on me.”
― Monica Gomez-Hira, Once Upon a Quinceañera