Top 31 Pam Munoz Ryan Quotes
#1. Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed.
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#2. This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
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#3. I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?
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#4. We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
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#7. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
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#9. Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.
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#12. Mrs. Potter said you were a kind and loving soul, underneath all the rest. I guess that means your heart's so sad that it's hard to get out from under the weight. When I was sad about my mother dying, Granny used to say grief is the heaviest thing to carry alone. So I know all about that -Mike
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#13. Everybody has a heart. Sometimes you gotta work hard to find it -Mouse
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#15. There it was again, the good and bad all rolled into a meatball.
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#17. Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another?
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#18. Our Land is alive, Esperanza ... This whole valley breathes and lives ... He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
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#19. Finally, the lawyer came to settle the estate. Mama,
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#20. A weight pressed on his heart. How could he want something and fear it so much at the same time?
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#21. I am poetry,
surrounding the dreamer,
Ever present,
I capture the spirit,
enslave
the reluctant pen,
and become
the breath
on the writer's only road.
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#22. You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.
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#23. A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.
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#26. Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father
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#27. I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.
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#28. Does a metamorphosis begin from the outside in? Or from the inside out?
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#29. What grows [from] the dark soil of disappointment?
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#31. She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart.
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