It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: first-sentence
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: first-sentence
The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: first-sentence
We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: first-sentence
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
Esmeralda SantiagoAnother train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.
Esmeralda SantiagoWhat doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
Esmeralda SantiagoTell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
Esmeralda SantiagoI learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: happiness life-lessons
They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.
Esmeralda SantiagoTags: future-plans destiny pride achievement
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