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81 " What is that to me?” the crocodile monster said, pressing a clawed hand to its chest, as if indignant to the accusation. “I have lived in this river since before the time of men. Before iron and smoke polluted these waters. I have lived in this river since before it ran red with blood and your people set the coasts on fire. What do I care if humans starve? "
― Zoraida Córdova , The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
82 " regret the choices I made that brought us here. I regret putting my family in danger. I breathe the sorrow in the wind, and its breaks my concentration. “Alejandra— "
― Zoraida Córdova , Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)
83 " have always been angry, Bastard Daughter of the Waves. The other day, I was in the shallows near Puná, and I watched a ship unload garbage into the waters. I was buried under it for days and no one came to help me. The other fish and crabs couldn’t hear me. "
84 " Why?” Rey asked. “We’re millennials. We’re desensitized and have no shame. "
85 " That I would never be indebted to anyone ever again, especially men like your father. This was a loan, and I want to pay it back. "
86 " The last song of the record was followed by the hollowness of the end. Sometimes he wondered if that’s what the afterlife sounded like. Those few seconds at the end of the vinyl where there’s sound but no music, just a crackle, a warped scratch. "
87 " Not everyone had, alas. When she met Michael Sullivan’s family, she realized they didn’t have remedies or languages they spoke only in private. Everything the Sullivans ate came from a can or a frozen bag. They didn’t use salt on anything, except a pinch in their food. They didn’t suck the marrow from their chicken bones for health. They didn’t have stories of ghosts or duendes or cucos hiding underneath the bed. "
88 " What did she think? Her husband, who had fucked her on the open deck of the ship just moments before he learned that he was going to be a father, and what did he do? Reward himself with drink. With another woman. "
89 " Você pode amar alguém mesmo depois de a pessoa te magoar. "
90 " She’d learned how to arm her face the minute she stepped out the door because of boys and men who cast lines her way like she was another fish in that filthy Hudson they called a river. She learned New York evolved because it survived on blood. It was loud because it was a symphony of people shouting their dreams and hoping to be heard. Marimar had longed to add her dreams to that song but when she tried, her voice was a whisper. "
91 " Our kind, we don't leave many traces behind in this world. "
― Zoraida Córdova , The Vicious Deep (The Vicious Deep #1)
92 " Eddie insisted that everyone call him Reymundo. Rey was too sweet, too causal. Why be Rey? Something that meant king, when his mother had intended for him to be the king of the earth. Why be less when he was so much more? "
93 " As famílias latinas só acham que são amaldiçoadas porque nunca vão jogar a culpa em Deus, na Virgem Maria nem na colonização. "
94 " Algumas pessoas simplesmente tinham talento para as coisas, mas tinham nascido pobres, feias ou azaradas, e tudo o que podiam dizer era “Olhe só pra mim” e dar o seu melhor. "
95 " Mas Orquídea achava que homens bonitos eram ainda mais perigosos. Os homens já nasciam com poder. Por que precisavam de mais? "
96 " Ela já deveria saber que, se um homem descarta outras mulheres como nada, mais cedo ou mais tarde fará o mesmo com ela. "
97 " Mas era assim que a saudade funcionava. Você desejava estar com aquelas pessoas, sentia falta, depois esquecia delas. Então desejava tê-las por perto novamente. "
98 " How rude of me. This is Roaan Recklit." We shake hands. Good grip, good grip. "Sorry," he says, releasing my hand. "I forget my own strength. "
99 " She ached for a time that was long gone and for things she could never get back. She scratched at the hollow of her throat wishing she could carve out the emotion. "
100 " Jules knew that nothing was ever too broken to fix or too old to be repurposed. Like many things, and even people, on Batuu, there was always another life to live. "
― Zoraida Córdova , A Crash of Fate (Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, #1)