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“I have inherited her name but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
-The house on Mango Street”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad.”
― Cisneros Sandra