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by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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Dime quién soy by Julia Navarro

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—Joven, no se impaciente, la vida de las personas tiene sentido si se explica en su contexto, de lo contrario es difícil que usted entienda nada.

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“When he spoke about US banks owning Puerto Ricans’ land, the US Navy controlling their borders, the US Congress writing their laws, and US companies paying them starvation wages in the sugar cane fields, everyone knew what he was talking about.”
― Nelson Denis, War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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“Then a strange thing happened. A US Senator named Millard Tydings finally introduced a bill that would give Puerto Ricans their independence. Every politician on the island supported it—except Luis. Throughout the 1940s, he repeatedly opposed the Tydings independence bill. He even traveled to Washington in 1943 and 1945 to lobby against it, saying that Puerto Rico “was not ready for self-government.”54”
― Nelson Denis, War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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“Their torture was based on racial hatred. They would never do this to one of their own. The barbarities in this hidden building were the clearest expression of how these men from El Norte viewed Vidal’s people.”
― Nelson Denis, War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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“Quién es, preguntó. Se lo dije. A nuestro alrededor continuaban los ruidos de siempre: los niños, los perros y los timbres de las bicicletas; las campanas de San Andrés llamando a la última misa, las ruedas de los carros girando sobre los adoquines, los mulos cansados camino al fin del día. Ignacio tardó en volver a hablar. Tal determinación, tanta seguridad de intuir en mi decisión que ni siquiera dejó entrever su desconcierto. No dramatizó ni exigió explicaciones. No me increpó ni me pidió que reconsiderara mis sentimientos. Solo pronunció una frase más, lentamente, como dejándola escurrir. -Nunca va a quererte tanto como yo-”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between

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