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“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”
― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

“We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then?”
― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”
― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

“When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.”
― Brando Skyhorse, Take This Man. A Memoir