Source: In the Time of the Butterflies
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Famous Julia Alvarez Quotes
“How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.”
Source: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
“Depression is always in the details.”
Source: The Woman I Kept to Myself
“Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.”
Source: In the Time of the Butterflies
“Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.”
“I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.”
“The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.”
“A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.”
Source: In the Time of the Butterflies
Source: Before We Were Free
“There is no end to what can be said about the world”
Source: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
“A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.”
Source: Before We Were Free
“Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.”