Status Updates From The House on Mango Street

Trying to improve my Spanish w this book and it’s already kicking my ass

“Four who grew despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be.”

"She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow."

“When I went home that evening and realized my education had been a lie—had made presumptions about what was "normal," what was American, what was valuable—I wanted to quit school right then and there, but I didn't. Instead, I got angry, and anger when it is used to act, when it is used nonviolently, has power.”
From the introduction

audiobook walk + cleaning session on my first day of my break!