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“As they piled into the minivan, Rhiannon said, "I talked to the moon again last night." She scratched her forehead. Her Rose had turned violet overnight. Rey examined his Rose. "How come I don't get to be a human mood ring?"
Marimar ginned and said, "because your only mood is dramatic.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Everyone mistook her silence for being dim-witted, but Orquídea was as sharp as the knives in her pocket. She saw the truth in peoples lies. She saw the sin in their deeds.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Tantinelly would never be a painter, a writer, a celebrity, a scientist. She didn't wait to be any of those things, and that was okay. Some people were meant for great, lasting legacies. Others were meant for small moments of goodness, tiny but that rippled and grew in big, wide ways. Tantinelly might have been ordinary, but she was not weak. And she'd been saving the gift Orquídea had given her for a moment that mattered.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“You think... we can't match him?" Slick asked from her bed. "I've had three children...And some man whose never felt... his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me? He thinks he's safe because he thinks like you. He looks at Patricia and thinks we're all a bunch of Sunshine Suzies. He think we're what we look like on the outside: Nice southern ladies. Let me tell you something, there's nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires