“They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter“I am in the earth and the earth is in me”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter“Gringos! They have copied us again”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter“Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter