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> [The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/the-border-between-the-dead-and-the-living-if-you-re-mexican-doesn-t/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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> [Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/post-9-11-we-ve-seen-such-disastrous-policies-on-the-border-i-live/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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> [The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/the-border-between-the-dead-and-the-living-if-you-re-mexican-doesn-t-2/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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## Other authors on Border

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- [Marjorie Taylor Greene 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/border/marjorie-taylor-greene/)
- [Beto O'Rourke 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/border/beto-o-rourke/)

## More by Sandra Cisneros

> [We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/we-tend-to-think-of-orphans-as-being-the-protagonist-of-stories-we/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-m-learning-a-lot-by-reading-teachers-like-thich-nhat-hanh-pema/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-never-know-what-something-is-going-to-be-until-it-emerges-from-the/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/believe-it-or-not-mexican-cooking-for-those-of-you-who-have-not-gone/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-feel-that-i-can-teach-my-listener-about-a-new-word-they-can-use-too/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/now-i-feel-life-is-really-short-and-i-have-to-take-care-of-things/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/to-this-day-on-my-cheat-days-from-my-diet-which-are-new-year-s-eve/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/you-can-never-have-too-much-sky-you-can-fall-asleep-and-wake-up-drunk/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [ \[Jorge Luis Borges\] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and-i-was-trying-to-learn-how-to/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-want-to-thank-you-especially-those-people-who-are-agnostic-or/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [ We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" \[to be moved\]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/we-changed-it-to-emocion-the-way-you-say-in-spanish-to-emotion-me-to/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/when-i-m-starting-to-feel-how-many-more-people-are-there-i-go-slower/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-ve-put-up-with-too-much-too-long-and-now-i-m-just-too-intelligent/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/if-we-got-an-educational-program-going-we-could-tell-people-instead/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

> [I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-always-have-to-have-sweet-and-salty-i-know-some-of-you-are-going-to/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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