“How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?” — 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
