emily :)

“I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I've put up with too much, too long. And now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything les”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver”
― Cisneros Sandra

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