This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.