50 Quotes by Jeanine Cummins

Someone once told me that the only good advice for grief is to stay hydrated. Because everything else is just chingaderas.

Lydia siempre ha sido una madre devota, pero nunca codependiente, como esas madres que extrañan a sus hijos cuando están en la escuela o cuando duermen. Siempre atesoró ese tiempo para sí, para habitar sus propios pensamientos y descansar del incesante clamor emocional de la maternidad.

From the Author's Note: In my conversations with Mexican people, I seldom heard the word American used to describe a citizen of this country – instead they use a word we don’t even have in English estadounidense, United States-ian. Pg383

...that life was exciting, that there was always the possibility of something, or someone, previously undiscovered.

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

If you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?

It seems impossible that good people – so many good people – can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken.

it wasn’t the body but the way he animated it that had thrilled her.

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Pg383