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“Anyway, another thing that kept me from reading the book is that Nathaniel told me to read it and I do not like it when boys tell me what to read.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“My uncle’s death confirmed all of my grandfather’s fears about himself and his place in the family. He could not protect. He could not provide. Emasculation at the hands of the state is a very cunning thing for the state to do because men will never see it coming from the state. They’ll blame the subjects in their own kingdoms, the women and children to whom they are lords. The only people to whom they are lords.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“But a dozen books were hardly enough to last six months; he always read each one so many times over he’d nearly memorized them by the time the next shipment came.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It was my first time seeing white people dance outside of television and for what it’s worth I thought it was very brave.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina