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that whatever their reception in the United States, the children will keep coming as long as there is a need to escape from realities too frightening to bear. “Children run and flee. They have an instinct for survival, perhaps, that allows
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“Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― James
― James
“I have never seen before was in front of the place for the hamburgers. You know the place — if you eat one, it’s OK, but if you eat two, you shit in your panties? Oh, you know it? You like it? Ay. Every time, I get a stomachache.”
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
“Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father.
The less you say, the more the people listen.”
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
The less you say, the more the people listen.”
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
“It was hard to imagine what the world might be like if deaf people had as short a fuse about hearing people's inability to sign, their neglect or refusal to caption TV, or , hell the announcements on this bus. Of course, that was their privilege--to conflate majority with superiority.”
― True Biz
― True Biz
“The thing is, May,' the hum said, 'the goal of advertising is to rip a hole in your heart, so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other materials that can be yanked out of the earth, and, after brief sojourns as objects of desire, be converted to waste.”
― Hum
― Hum
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