5 Quotes & Sayings By Aly Martinez

Aly Martinez is a bestselling American-Mexican author of romance novels. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and moved to the United States at the age of four. She was raised in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from high school in 2005. She attended Lone Star College until she earned her B.A Read more

in sociology from Tyler Junior College in 2008. While attending college she worked as a waitress at a Mexican restaurant and also worked evenings as a researcher for her father's research firm. In 2009 she joined a writers' group and decided to become a novelist.

Her first novel, "The Love You Left Behind," released in 2011, became a bestseller and has been translated into five languages.

It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait...
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It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises. Aly Martinez
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It’s different and bold. It stands out amongst a blank world of black, white, and gray. Orange is the early morning sun stretching across the sky and the color of a burning ember standing tall in the middle of a beach bonfire. It’s leaves in the fall, carrots in Nana’s vegetable soup on a cold winter day, tulips in the spring, and the ladybugs in the middle of the grassy park on a hot summer afternoon. Orange is life. It’s unexpected but beautiful. Aly Martinez
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I couldn't keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I'd let the future pass me by. Aly Martinez
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I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t hear her voice. Aly Martinez