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Erika L. Sánchez

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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  • más o menos Perlahas quoted6 years ago
    I’m not sure what it means to be proud of myself yet, but I’m trying to learn
  • gizelhamelyhas quoted9 months ago
    Amá has taken away my phone, so I call Connor every day after school from what I believe is the only remaining pay phone in the city.

    Setting

  • aicirtaPhas quoted2 years ago
    If I end up being an office lady who wears slacks and changes into white sneakers to walk home from the train, I’ll just jump off a skyscraper.

    same

  • aicirtaPhas quoted2 years ago
    When Amá sees me come out of my room, she makes the sign of the cross and doesn’t say anything—that’s what she does when she hates what I’m wearing or I say something weird, which is always.
  • Gurleen Kaurhas quoted2 years ago
    Adrienne Rich books.
  • Gurleen Kaurhas quoted2 years ago
    Adrienne Rich books.
  • Adilah Budiantohas quoted4 years ago
    It’s not that I’m living life for them, exactly, but I have so many choices they’ve never had, and I feel like I can do so much with what I’ve been given. What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull, mediocre life. Maybe one day they’ll realize that.
  • Adilah Budiantohas quoted4 years ago
    He’s kidding but not kidding.
  • Adilah Budiantohas quoted4 years ago
    “Julia, sometimes in life you don’t get to do what you want to do. Sometimes you have to deal with what’s given to you, shut up, and keep working. That’s it.”
  • Мариhas quoted5 years ago
    After the bookstore, we walk to the 606. One of the best decisions the city has ever made was to convert an old rail line into an elevated park. The trail spans two and a half miles—from Wicker Park to Humboldt Park—and it has great views of the skyline and neighborhoods below.
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