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“That was how people like you and I came to know of so much of the world, reading about it from people who despised us.”
― Gravel Heart
― Gravel Heart
“I had to laugh, but remembered feeling the same sorrow when I was younger, and telling my mother, 'One day we'll all be dead and the streets will be empty. Who's going to sweep them?”
― Strange Beasts of China
― Strange Beasts of China
“To the gringos, these twenty-seven Chiricahuas were an enemy army. What we had to offer them was a fitting death for their warriors and assimilation for their children, absorption into the particular Mexican fabric of sorrows and joys. What the Americans had to offer was a life of humiliation, but one in which their difference would be recognized.”
― Now I Surrender
― Now I Surrender
“I understood not that his innocence didn't come from not knowing anything, but rather from having seen everything there was to see, understanding it, and setting it down. He'd let go of what I hadn't been able to.”
― Strange Beasts of China
― Strange Beasts of China
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