Quotes from Raquel Cepeda

A mother isn't the person who births you; it's the person who rears you and shows you love.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess's playground

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.