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‘The Master,’ she said, in English, and Brunetti watched her go all misty-eyed, the way she always did when she talked about Henry James. Did it make sense, he wondered, to be jealous? Jealous of a man who, it seemed to him from what Paola
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Henry James.Paola's literary hero
“Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.”
― The Distance Between Us
― The Distance Between Us
“You're in love with my mind/But sometimes, sweetheart, a woman needs a man who loves her ass.”
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“Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.”
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“Grandpa Cosme used to call me Pájaro but not because I walked like I had feathers, he called me that because I have wings where other people have regrets and fears and they can’t stand up from the weight of everything their families expect from them,”
― Witches
― Witches
“went home thinking about the duality of being an immigrant, our split identities, the cleaving of our hearts and bodies—half of our heart remained in our homeland, the other was here with us. One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.”
― A Dream Called Home
― A Dream Called Home
Clarissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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