Sometimes it’s hard to wait for good things to happen. – Tia Isa.

Cruz has never been my favorite person, I’ll give you that. But an enemy? There’s no sense i having those if we can help it” -Papi.

How can you say bad things about someone you don’t know?” I shout. “How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?” she’s not better than Yaqui. It’s like everywhere there’s a bully in my face.

I am frightened, too,′ he says. ‘We all are. But we are the Suarez family, Merci. We are strong enough to face this together.

Nothing ends. There is only transformation, ugly as it may be.

Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way – you can see where you came from but can’t go back.

Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa

Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way--you can see where you came from but can't go back.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.