

“Can I miss people I’ve never met? Because I think I do.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“She’d put me in her toy carriage and sing me songs by Cepillín, that scary Mexican clown who looks like a rapist but everyone loves for some reason.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“I smile and say, thank you,' because the rudest thing you can do to a Mexican lady is refuse her food—might as well spit on a picture of La Virgen de Guadalupe or turn the TV off during Sábado Gigante.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“I wonder what it’s like to clean houses all day and then come home and keep cleaning. I hate seeing her this way because it makes me feel so guilty—guilty for existing, guilty that she has to work like that for us.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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