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> [“It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she said, for a moment scanning the dark night air and the empty street. A cricket chirped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/it-s-a-great-honor-m-ijo-we-know-that-i-m-sure-everyone-in-ysleta-is/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

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> [“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.” “I’m sorry. I have to talk to you; it’s something very important. Papá, Mamá, I’ve made a decision, and I wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/julia-is-everything-all-right-her-father-said-in-a-raspy-voice-it-s/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

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## Other authors on Assimilation

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## More by Sergio Troncoso

> [“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The Germans had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/a-group-of-ten-prisoners-from-dachau-i-was-with-them-we-hid-in-the/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/it-s-a-great-honor-m-ijo-we-know-that-i-m-sure-everyone-in-ysleta-is/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“Again, this week as I walked on Broadway, in front of giant photographs of voluptuous supermodels at a Victoria Secret mega-store, who was rebuilding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/again-this-week-as-i-walked-on-broadway-in-front-of-giant-photographs/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“I made many decisions, some awful and others brilliant, but I found ways to keep that openness in my soul that meant more to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/i-made-many-decisions-some-awful-and-others-brilliant-but-i-found/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/i-hated-seeing-these-spasmodic-upside-down-chicken-heads-stretching/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“So the Juárez/El Paso area before the recent drug violence was not a bilingual, bi-national, bicultural Zion, but it was one world. One entity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/so-the-ju-rez-el-paso-area-before-the-recent-drug-violence-was-not-a/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/rich-people-don-t-have-to-have-a-life-and-death-relationship-with-the/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/i-am-in-between-trying-to-write-to-be-understood-by-those-who-matter/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless and feeble.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/two-weeks-ago-aaron-and-isaac-i-learned-your-mother-laura-has-breast/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“But Anja. I hear Anja's voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I remember being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am-insane-i-hear-her-crying-i/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/at-harvard-the-strong-and-savvy-and-confident-thrived-while-the-nice/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.” “I’m sorry. I have to talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/julia-is-everything-all-right-her-father-said-in-a-raspy-voice-it-s/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/i-held-angie-luna-in-that-room-for-hours-and-i-remember-the-different/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/rich-people-don-t-have-to-have-a-life-and-death-relationship-with-the-2/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

> [“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind of gulag…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/what-happens-when-we-start-believing-the-world-and-what-is-important/)

[Sergio Troncoso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-troncoso/)

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