When I was Puerto Rican
A source page for quotes linked to Esmeralda Santiago.
“I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.”
“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”
“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”
“Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.”
“How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?”
“In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.”