Another 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… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres,… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“In the Spanish-speaking Americas, Christmas is much more than a one-day event followed by a staggering credit card bill. The festivities last for weeks,… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“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.… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created. — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?” — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times. — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown? — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
“It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image