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“Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.”
― Burro Genius: A Memoir
― Burro Genius: A Memoir
“I’m simple when you want me to be complicated. And I’m complicated when you want me to be simple.”
― Before She Disappeared
― Before She Disappeared
“Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head.”
― Burro Genius
― Burro Genius
“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, ”
― Burro Genius
― Burro Genius
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