Nicholas Cato
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“Her father said the death of a loved one was like a house on fire. Even with everything intact, it still felt like mere ashes.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“When you get to the United States, nobody will understand you. I don't mean just the language. It's a country of strangers. It will be another kind of sentence. But one that as an immigrant you won't be able to escape.
You think this country is so much better?
No, but it's a land of brothers and sisters. You want to go to a place where you'll be invisible.
I want to be with my mother.
Colombia is your mother too.”
― Infinite Country
You think this country is so much better?
No, but it's a land of brothers and sisters. You want to go to a place where you'll be invisible.
I want to be with my mother.
Colombia is your mother too.”
― Infinite Country
“What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“I hate the term undocumented. It implies people like my mother and me don't exist without a paper trail. I have a drawer full of diaries and letters I never sent to my grandmother, my father, even to my younger sister that will prove to anyone I am very real, most definitely documented; photos taped to our refrigerator, snapshots taken at the Sandy Hill house or other friends' fiestas, the Sears portraits our mother used to dress up for every year, making us seat on bus seats still as statues so we wouldn't wrinkle to have a perfect picture to send back to her mother. Don't tell me I'm undocumented when my name is tattooed on my father's arms.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it's ugly and distorted; you've become a scorned, unwanted creature.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
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