You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.

- 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 you lie …

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

- Pam Muñoz 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 the condition o…

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

There is no rose without thorns.

- 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 memories of those who have gone before me. What…

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom th…

- Pam Muñoz Ryan

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to …

- Pam Muñoz Ryan