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“I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...”
― Margarita Engle, The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

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“If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.”
― Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

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“I will never understand
the whole world

or even
one country.

All I can do
is try to understand
the truth and lies
in the simplest choices
I face
every day.”
― Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

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“I feel like...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.
”
― Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

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“I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.

How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless—there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.”
― Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

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