--- title: "9 Latino Quotes By Sergio Troncoso" description: "9 Latino quotes by Sergio Troncoso. Plus more from Sergio Troncoso and more Latino sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/sergio-troncoso-33120_bad-day_i-am-in-between-trying-to-write-to-be-un_1218396.jpg" --- > [I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/sergio-troncoso-33120_bad-day_i-am-in-between-trying-to-write-to-be-un_1218396.jpg) > [“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…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/sergio-troncoso-33120_assimilation_it-s-a-great-honor-m-ijo-we-know-that-i_186960.jpg) > [At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8c/sergio-troncoso-33120_all-nighters_at-harvard-the-strong-and-savvy-and-conf_2271685.jpg) > [“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…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/sergio-troncoso-33120_assimilation_julia-is-everything-all-right-her-father_2319867.jpg) > [“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/sergio-troncoso-33120_chicano_i-hated-seeing-these-spasmodic-upside-do_924713.jpg) > [“But Anja. I hear Anja's voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/sergio-troncoso-33120_antisemitism_but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am_1679191.jpg) > [“I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/sergio-troncoso-33120_becoming-better_i-held-angie-luna-in-that-room-for-hours_2682306.jpg) > [“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/292/sergio-troncoso-33120_antisemitism_a-group-of-ten-prisoners-from-dachau-i-w_132701.jpg) > [“Again, this week as I walked on Broadway, in front of giant photographs of voluptuous supermodels at a Victoria Secret mega-store, who…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/523/sergio-troncoso-33120_chicano_again-this-week-as-i-walked-on-broadway_308809.jpg) ## Other authors on Latino - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jimmy-smits-50005.jpg) Jimmy Smits 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/jimmy-smits/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sonia-sotomayor-86182.jpg) Sonia Sotomayor 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/sonia-sotomayor/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-lopez-37820.jpg) George Lopez 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/george-lopez/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gabriel-iglesias-36652.jpg) Gabriel Iglesias 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/gabriel-iglesias/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernie-sanders-17420.jpg) Bernie Sanders 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/bernie-sanders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sandra-cisneros-82933.jpg) Sandra Cisneros 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/sandra-cisneros/) - [Ruben Gallego 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/ruben-gallego/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eva-longoria-34235.jpg) Eva Longoria 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/eva-longoria/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrew-breitbart-12890.jpg) Andrew Breitbart 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/andrew-breitbart/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/latino/sergio-troncoso/#itemlist", "name": "9 Latino Quotes By Sergio Troncoso", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. 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A perfect scheme!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sergio Troncoso" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-troncoso/but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am-insane-i-hear-her-crying-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/sergio-troncoso-33120_antisemitism_but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am_1679191.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/sergio-troncoso-33120_antisemitism_but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am_1679191.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/sergio-troncoso-33120_antisemitism_but-anja-i-hear-anja-s-voice-maybe-i-am_1679191.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But Anja. I hear Anja's voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. 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