I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.
Raquel CepedaTags: family identity home loneliness alone isolation paradise coming-of-age invisibility paraiso transnational
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
Raquel CepedaTags: life parents forgetting coming-of-age divorce families family-saga
Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.
Raquel CepedaTags: coming-of-age hip-hop youth-culture lingua-franca 80s-hip-hop counterculture disenfranchisement
We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
Raquel CepedaTags: coming-of-age infallibility educational-system educational-inequity miseducation
You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.
Raquel CepedaTags: spirituality coming-of-age journey-in-life divine-intervention spiritual-guides
So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.
Stacey KadeTags: love coming-of-age realization
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I’ve always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside—well, except K-19. But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
John GreenTags: coming-of-age
And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.
John FowlesTags: youth discovery enlightenment coming-of-age
But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.
Meg WolitzerTags: coming-of-age
The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.
Eileen GranforsTags: coming-of-age butterflies mariposas
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