Money Quote by Pam Muñoz Ryan

“The sound of music is like water finding a path.”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

There is no rose without thorns.

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

...To which mystical land does an unfinished staircase lead?

— Pam Munoz Ryan

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“Rose is not complete without the thorns.”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of the other.…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“I also had a father, who had loved for a long time without being nearby. How many others were walking around and not even…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“What grows [from] the dark soil of disappointment?”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“We have little money and Hortensia, Alfonso, and Miguel are no longer our servants. We are indebted to them for our finances and our…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“As their shoulders touched, the riverboat was no longer earthbound. With only the two of them aboard, it lifted into the sky, navigating a…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan