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“It never failed. Being at my mom's house always made me feel like expired milk.”
― Claire Jimenez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

“Besides, you can only sympathize so long for somebody else's loss before you run out of encouraging things to say.”
― Claire Jimenez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

“Part of me wondered what it would be like to be a kid again, to not have to work, to lie in bed all day, to simply open my mouth and scream. Surely somebody would run to my side and cradle me in the dark and whisper It's okay my love, over and over again into my ear, until I fall asleep.”
― Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun