Happiness Quote by Esmeralda Santiago

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

— Esmeralda Santiago

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

— Esmeralda Santiago

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

— Esmeralda Santiago

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

— Esmeralda Santiago

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

— Esmeralda Santiago

“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

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