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“Move across the country and hope the Sadness won’t find you, won’t follow you like a stray dog from coast to coast.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“People out grow me," he said, in the same blase tone one might say, "That is a tall building." He picked up a stick and chucked it into the water. |Everyone who ever loves me one day outgrows me.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

“Hope that you are not the Sadness’s home, anywhere you go, no matter how far, no matter how quickly—the Sadness lives in you.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“I never found out what happened to Chele, or to any of the countless others who were with me. I fear they died in the Sonoran Desert. This book is for them and for every immigrant who has crossed, who has tried to, who is crossing right now, and who will keep trying.”
― Javier Zamora, Solito