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1 " She ate the stars and swallowed the earth, She is the girl with all the power. "
― Zoraida Córdova , Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)
2 " We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny. "
3 " Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that. "
4 " The Force does move us together and apart as it needs to. "
― Zoraida Córdova , A Crash of Fate (Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, #1)
5 " My body is different and strange and new to me, and I have to be kind to it. I have to learn this version of myself and love her like she deserves.But now, I know I'm telling the truth when I say, "I'm going to be fine." - "
― Zoraida Córdova , Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas, #2)
6 " If only cities were as easy for her to maneuver as infinite space. "
7 " Sometimes heading in the right direction required taking a few steps backward. "
8 " You must always know your roots if you are to know how sturdy the tree will grow. "
9 " What's the point of racing around the galaxy if you aren't going to have fun? "
10 " Anger was the hardest thing to let go of, other than love. "
11 " Not all monsters look monstrous.’ There’s so much sadness in his voice that I want to ask how he knows that. 'Sometimes they’re perfectly normal humans. Sometimes they’re so beautiful, you would never suspect. "
12 " How do you mourn someone who's not dead yet? "
― Zoraida Córdova , Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
13 " 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. "
14 " 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. "
15 " Not all loves are meant to last forever. Some burn like fire until there is nothing left but ash and black ink on skin. "
16 " Breakable. No matter who we are we are breakable. "
― Zoraida Córdova , Incendiary (Hollow Crown #1)
17 " Sometimes I wonder if a person can have so much regret they'll drown in it. "
18 " There is so much wrong in the world." she says. "Sometimes, I feel the only thing I can give is a bit of kindness, even when I can't give hope. "
19 " Orquídea didn’t like it because she knew she wasn’t a flower, delicate and pretty and waiting to be plucked. For what? To be smelled? To sit in a glass of water until she withered? She was more than that. She wanted to be rooted so deep into the earth that nothing, no human, no force of nature, save an act of the heavens themselves, could rip her out. "
― Zoraida Córdova , The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
20 " Some people were meant for great, lasting legacies. Others were meant for small moments of goodness, tiny but that rippled and grew in big, wide waves. "
