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“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.”

“and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade”…WHAT??? The women in this book suffer so badly 😢😢

“Red clowns”…:(

“People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don’t look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have nothing to do with last week’s garbage or fear of rats. Night comes. Nothing wakes them but the wind.”

“without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted, all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love and to love, and no one could call that crazy.” LITERALLY LUX LISBON!!!

“You become a different Sally. You pull your skirt straight, you rub the blue paint off your eyelids. You don’t laugh, Sally. You look at your feet and walk fast to the house you can’t come out from.” This reminds me of the Lisbon sisters, specifically Lux Lisbon

“The man saved his money to bring her here. He saved and saved because she was alone with the baby boy in that country. He worked two jobs. He came home late and he left early. Every day.”

"Dalia"