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Hellen Flennoy

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“You boys must always remember your roots, everything that makes you Puerto Rican. Don’t ever lose the stain of the plantain,” Isa said.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: ballrooms, betrayal, family-dynamics, historical-puerto-rican-society, intimate, loyalty, lush, nostalgia, period-fiction, rebellion

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“Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

tags: girl-interrupted

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“I never forgot their many kindnesses to me. You might forget many things in your life, but you never forget kindness. Like love, it stays with you...forever." -Sara (Grandmere)”
― R.J. Palacio, White Bird

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“I feel rotten but I can’t change the way I feel.”
― Beatrice Sparks

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“Atahuallpa’s presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity. Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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