Belly Quote by Isabel Allende

“During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed…

— Kevin Renner

“The ladies in her classes loved to speak to Caridad in broken Spanish, to show her they were comfortable with her ethnicity despite the…

— Roxane Gay

“to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily challenges kept…

— Isabel Allende

To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and…

— James Alexander Thom

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

— Bram Stoker

But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood…

— Laini Taylor

“Mama Juanita used to tell us the story of La Vieja Tollussa, who put herself in a hundred-year sleep to outlive her enemies. But…

— Zoraida Córdova

“Her rocking chair of carved wood and woven cane tilted between this world and another that was beyond imagining, wafting scents of talcum and…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“She slept beneath a tree that night, sitting upright. She imagined she would have been scared for her life out in the open, for…

— Alice Hoffman

“She had gleaming mahogany hair, cut into a sharp, sleek bob and eyes that were the colour of dark chocolate – huge doe eyes…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“At least Madame Selena had her own building…about sixteen inches from the edge of the highway, but still. And she had a turban. Say…

— Stacey Kade

“In the landscape of my native land, a stranger in my own fields, --I had a homeland where the Duero flows between gray cliffs…

— Antonio Machado