#the inheritance of orquidea divina
She did not believe in God, but she had always believed in her grandmother, and the prayer that passed through her lips was for her.
The Inheritance of Orquíeda Divina
“She wondered, did everyone have such a fraught relationship with the places they came from? Did anyone else have a grandmother who might as well have been a legend, a myth, a series of miracles that took the shape of an old woman?”
“We don’t talk. None of us. Why don’t we ever talk? Silence is a language of its own in this family. A curse of our own making. That’s the inheritance my daughter got from me, and I am so very sorry.”
books cristina read in 2021: the inheritance of orquídea divina - zoraida córdova
“If she closed her eyes she could imagine sitting around a fireplace, with the kind of family that was bonded by blood and roots and magic.”