Camino Rios Quotes

“There have been many days when Papi’s check comes late and we have to count how many eggs we have left or how long the meat will stretch. I don’t want Tía and me to always live this way. I will make it. I will make it. I will make it easier for us both.”

″‘Don’t let it stain you,’ Tia’s always said. But can’t she see? This place we’re from already has it’s prints on me.”

“It is easy in a moment like this to want to speak over this woman, to tell Tia there is nothing more we can do, to say out loud the woman is lucky that her lungs still draw breath. But I learned young, you do not speak of the dying as if they are already dead.”

“I know too much of mud.”

“I want to take what I’ve learned from Tia’s life dedicated to aid & build a life where I can help others.”

“I am beginning to learn that life-altering news is often like a premature birth: ill-timed, catching someone unaware, emotionally unprepared & often where they shouldn’t be.”

“He must have realized his laugh was like one of those paper shredders making a sad confetti of my hopes.”

“They say the plane fell right out of the sky.”