Reclaim the Stars Quotes

“How do you mourn someone who's not dead yet?”
― Daniel José Older, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“Building yourself around a curse only makes the poison stronger.”
― Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“We moved away to a place where the Ocean whispered no secrets, and the water sang no music.”
― Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“There was a peaceful stillness here, even though it was never truly quiet. It hummed, sang, and growled. The land was a wild green that wasn’t afraid of death.”
― Nina Moreno, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“You don’t belong to them any more than the sea belongs to the boats that glide on her back.”
― Vita Ayala, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“Magic is never small.”
― Nina Moreno, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“We are creatures of kings. Death fears us, and he will not keep us.”
― Circe Moskowitz, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“He'd lost an island but was always trying to find them a new home - one with roots that would last.”
― Nina Moreno, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“I was the thing the monster from my dreams had warned about, the thing that crept on its clawed feet in the darkest night.”
― Claribel A. Ortega, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“It was raining again—this unrelenting rain. Without even trying, Malena heard the roaring of the growing river beneath the deafening song of the raindrops, frogs, crickets, and birds of the night. Above the trees, a bat swooped down time after time, tasting the still ripening nísperos in the trees. The medlar fruit was an immigrant like Malena's family, its ancestor brought as a seed in a ship all the way from China, and now it covered the fields as if it had been here since the beginning of the world.”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“This continued for many weeks. Sometimes, la sirena would join Suma in her singing, and together, their voices would bring dreams of the sea to the people of the plantation.
It was in these moments that Suma could taste freedom. It was then that she began to know love.”
― Vita Ayala, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“For an entire week, no one could find seven-year-old Luz Pérez after she slipped into the woods to play. The whole town had searched for her. Luz's memories were hazy, painted strange by her wild imagination. When she reappeared seven days later—telling stories about feasts beneath moonlight and a king who sat on a throne of roots—everyone's fear had turned to anger.”
― Nina Moreno, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

“We are the children of the reckoning.
You tried to send us away. You tried to destroy us. You tried to diminish us. You tried to forget us.
This means you never believed what we were capable of doing.”
― Mark Oshiro, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space